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: 2018
Pages: 29
Source title: Information and Technology Literacy: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3417-4.ch110

Keywords: Digital Literacy / Information Science Reference / IT Research and Theory / Library & Information Science

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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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