DIGITY: DIGital inclusion through social Innovation and TechnologY synergies in rural communities: A multi-disciplinary and multi-country collaboration

With funding from a New Frontiers Special Call “2022 Research for Postpandemic Recovery” Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2023-2025), and co-led by Dr. Kathy Rush and Dr Eric Li, the RHE-SETS team is exploring the ways social innovation and technology synergies can advance rural community resilience. In this International project, an interdisciplinary team of scholars and stakeholders from Canada, Ghana, and India will combine their expertise to study ways to advance rural and remote digital inclusion post-COVID-19 recovery by leveraging social innovation and technology synergies through digital cooperation. This project will address priorities 2.4 from the UN Research Roadmap: How can an exclusionary digital divide be prevented in an increasingly virtual world? and 5.5 How can digital technologies be harnessed to promote social cohesion while ensuring no one is excluded?