Keith Hampton, a Michigan State University Department of Media and Information professor, will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic reanimated policy makers’ focus on fixing gaps in broadband ...

It's become a popular talking point to list all the risks of data collection, whether it be privacy and surveillance or the lack of transparency that can come with data ownership. But rather than stay ...

The Digital Exclusion Risk Atlas (DERA) is an online location-based analytical tool designed to help health and care system teams understand and identify patterns of digital exclusion across England.

BALTIMORE, MD, February 27, 2025 – A new study published in the INFORMS journal Management Science reveals that unlimited mobile data plans may be a key solution to reducing digital inequality. The ...

A few years ago, in the early days of international COVID-19 lockdowns, scholar Eszter Hargittai ’96 collected survey data in three countries to explore social and digital disparities among internet ...

In the final days of 2025, Vietnam found itself caught in an unusually lively public debate over a policy document that, on paper, remains only a draft. For the first time, authorities openly floated ...

Millions of people are suffering from digital health inequality because of poverty, experts have warned. A team of doctors and academics found a "significant association" between increased poverty and ...

This multidisciplinary conference, chaired by Michael Luca in collaboration with the Race, Gender, and Equity initiative, will bring together researchers who are exploring the ways in which race, ...

Daron Acemoglu is Institute Professor at MIT; fellow of National Academy of Sciences, British Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; winner of BBVA ...