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Who can fill the digital divide gap?

The role of States, private entities and individual users. Digital media generate new opportunities, but also new challenges for persons with disabilities while producing an impact on some core human rights – i.e. freedom of expression and opinion, privacy, data protection, human dignity and autonomy. Such new challenges depend on either the shortages of the current legal and policy framework either on individual users’ behaviours online. Hence, one of the peculiarities of the digital environment is that the value of an online platform largely comes from the social networking provided...

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