Category: Allan Sylvester
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We are heading to Calgary for ASIS&T 2024
We will be presenting our recent paper: “It’s enriched my life”. Agency in the digital world: stories of empowerment and well-being Digital inclusion interventions are designed to address challenges related to digital technology access and use. The complex relationships between digital technologies and people’s general well-being are important when considering the development of digital services,…
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Digital Equity Evolution in Healthcare
Goulding, A., Campbell-Meier, J., Chikomba, A., Sanderson, L., & Sylvester, A. (2023). Digital equity evolution. Digital Health Showcase. Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington (28-30). March)https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/health/research/digital-health/digital-mental-health-catalyst/digital-health-showcase
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Methods and (Lack of) Theory in Digital Inclusion, Digital Divide, and Digital Equity Research on Older Adults
Older adults, as a group, have been the focus of considerable attention from digital inclusion researchers. The paper analyses literature on the digital inclusion, digital divide, and digital equity of older adults from the last five years (2017-2022) to explore the extent to which recent digital inclusion research considers developments in the field and explores…
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Conceptualization of Digital Twins in an Education Services Environment: A Straw Man Proposal
Digital twins have been used in manufacturing to describe, predict, and prescribe responses to complex problems. The digital twin is a constellation of technologies that mirror physical objects in the virtual world, including what has happened, is happening and could or should happen in the future for the mirrored object. What is common in previous…
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Understanding Digital Resilience amongst People Most at Risk of Digital Exclusion Interim Report: Investigating Skinny Jump User Experiences
This project investigates how sustainable Skinny Jump’s pre-pay internet-at-home system is and how it works for those who sign up for the initiative. Skinny Jump Skinny Jump is flexible prepaid broadband and is designed to help more New Zealanders gain access to affordable broadband at home through the provision of heavily subsidised connectivity to households…
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Indigenous Digital Inclusion: Interconnections and Comparisons
This paper explores published research on Indigenous digital inclusion, starting from the premise that Indigenous peoples adopt and use digital technologies in ways that fit their specific social contexts. Analysis of search results from Scopus and Web of Science aimed to identify common themes and approaches, and to explore differences and interconnections between research from…
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Indigenous Cultural Sustainability in a Digital World: Two Case Studies from Aotearoa New Zealand
This paper explores issues relating to the impact of digital technologies on indigenous cultural sustainability. Adoption of digital technologies is represented as a double-edged sword for indigenous communities seeking to maintain and revitalize their cultures; while the affordances of digital technology can disseminate cultural information knowledge quickly, easily and globally, digitalization also raises questions about…