The challenge of achieving an inclusive digital transformation across Barcelona and
Urbanisation and digitalisation are unstoppable waves
The global urbanisation rate has risen:
from 29% in 1950 to an expected 61% in 2030.
This is linked to the 4th Industrial Revolution, which is characterised by a rise in digital technologies and automation.In progressively urban, digitalised societies,
the risk of digital
exclusion
is greater
The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened existing structural inequalities,
as in the case of the feminisation of poverty.
The theory of intersectionality provides the framework needed
to manage the digital emergency
It explains that social identities and their associated inequalities come together in the same individual.