Digital Capabilities: ICT Adoption in Marginalized Communities in Israel and the West Bank

Amit M. Schejter; Baruch Shomron; Muhammad Abu Jafar; Ghalia Abu-Kaf; Jonathan Mendels; Shula Mola; Malka Shacham; Amneh Sharha; Noam Tirosh

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-22930-5

Digital Capabilities: ICT Adoption in Marginalized Communities in Israel and the West Bank

Amit M. Schejter, Baruch Shomron, Muhammad Abu Jafar, Ghalia Abu-Kaf, Jonathan Mendels, Shula Mola, Malka Shacham, Amneh Sharha, Noam Tirosh

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Tel Aviv University

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Abstract

Digital Capabilities is a first-of-its-kind exploration of the capabilities that communities in positions of inequality in Israel and the West Bank seek to realize by utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT), the opportunities they have to communicate, and the way ICTs serve their desire to do so. It is the outcome of an eight-year research project in which the nine authors of this, some of whom came from within the studied communities, conducted their work among the studied populations over an extended period of time. The capabilities approach, much discussed theoretically, takes on a life in this project and is presented as an empirically observable phenomenon for assessing whether ICTs are serving actual needs, whether communication resources are justly allocated and distributed and whether they serve the goal of a universally accessible right to communicate.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities
Pages	1-237
Number of pages	237
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22930-5
State	Published - 1 Jan 2023

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Name	Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities
Volume	Part F4288

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

Keywords

Capabilities
Communication Policy
Digital Divide
ICTs
Israel
Palastine

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Linguistics and Language
Communication
Cultural Studies

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Schejter, A. M., Shomron, B., Jafar, M. A., Abu-Kaf, G., Mendels, J., Mola, S., Shacham, M., Sharha, A., & Tirosh, N. (2023). Digital Capabilities: ICT Adoption in Marginalized Communities in Israel and the West Bank. In Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities (pp. 1-237). (Palgrave Studies in Digital Inequalities; Vol. Part F4288). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22930-5

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