The digital emergency

The challenge of achieving an inclusive digital transformation across Barcelona and the metropolitan area

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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.

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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.

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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.

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