Institutional Policies for Digital Inclusion in Spain

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Author(s): Maria-Jesús Colmenero-Ruiz (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)and Belén Pérez-Lorenzo (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 28
Source title: Handbook of Research on Comparative Approaches to the Digital Age Revolution in Europe and the Americas
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Brasilina Passarelli (School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo, Brazil), Joseph Straubhaar (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)and Aurora Cuevas-Cerveró (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8740-0.ch018

Keywords: Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities / Socio-Economic Development

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This chapter describes the evolution and results of the Spanish Policies of digital inclusion, since its inception in 2000 in the framework of the EU Lisbon Strategy (eEurope 2002) to the present, with special emphasis on cases of greater relevance. It reviews the different plans implemented at the country successively during that period of time. As a result of the Spanish political organization into Autonomous Communities, the direct application of these policies has corresponded to each of them, which adapted the outline to their interests and needs. So, it analyzes the situation in three of the Autonomous Communities, Catalonia, Andalusia and Extremadura, with different demographic and economic characteristics, providing recent indicators and the programs that are in development just now.

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