Social Exclusion as Human Insecurity: A Human Cybersecurity Framework Applied to the European High North

Gulbrandsen, Kristin Smette; Sheehan, Michael

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-48070-7_5

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“…To sum up, the term digital divide is a multidimensional and dynamic concept which includes a set of complex divides [ 77 ]. Digital divides can be categorized into three levels in terms of access and coverage, utility and skills, and outcomes [ 78 ].…”

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Age-Related Digital Divide during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China

Qian

Pickard

2021

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China has adopted a variety of digital technologies to effectively combat the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. The massive utilisation of digital technologies, however, to a great extent, magnifies the age-related digital divide. This paper aims to examine the impacts of the age-related digital divide on older adults in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cases of three age-related digital divide scenarios, including older people taking public transportation, seeking medical care, as well as conducting digital transactions, are collected from Chinese official news outlets. The results indicate that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates the pace of digital technology utilisation but exacerbates the age-related digital divide. Such an age-related digital divide has largely excluded older adults from both the real society and the virtual society. Older adults’ personal attitudes and motivations, as well as education and income, governmental policies, and family and social supports, are all major contributors to the severe impacts of the age-related digital divide on old adults during the pandemic. More measures should be adopted to bridge the age-related digital divide and build a senior-friendly e-society.

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Section: Analytical Frameworkmentioning

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Age-Related Digital Divide during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China

Qian

Pickard

2021

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“…Foundational services are generally provided locally as they are either delivered through physical infrastructures or require direct interaction between provider and customer (Froud et al, 2018). While digitization may to some extent affect this by opening up for providing some providential services such as education from distance (Gulbrandsen and Sheehan, 2020), generally local provision of foundational services makes these activities rather immobile and sheltered from inter-regional and international competition (Bentham et al, 2013a, Moore andCollins, 2020). Thus, while the FE is defined according to the characteristics of demand and opinions of citizens concerning the services that are actually foundational in character (Froud et al, 2018), the production of foundational services and its importance for economic development is arguably central to understand (see Hall and Schafran, 2017).…”

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Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?

Martynovich

Hansen

Lundquist

2022

Journal of Economic Geography

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We perform, to our best knowledge, the first systematic mapping of the foundational economy (FE) at the sub-national level by looking at the FE employment in Swedish regions between 2007 and 2016. We show that the FE itself not only suffered less than traded activities from employment decline during the Great Recession of 2007–2009 but was also a domain of substantial job creation in the post-crisis recovery. At the same time, regions with higher dependence on foundational employment were hit harder during the crisis in terms of overall labour market performance. We demonstrate that it is specific compositions of foundational and traded activities in the regional employment mix that relate differently to regional employment growth in times of crisis and recovery. Jointly, these findings allow us to contribute to the literatures on the FE and regional resilience.

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“…17 On the other hand, the stable functioning of digital infrastructures in the Arctic would promote human security, as it would enable people to access services such as education, health care and others that are delivered through digital platforms, thereby promoting greater social inclusion. 18 Additionally, as services are replaced by digital infrastructures, people would need to travel less, 19 since services would be attainable through well-connected internet networks. Less travelling means less use of motorised vehicles and consequently decreased greenhouse gas emissions and greater efficiency of climate change mitigation, which would advance greater environmental sustainability in the Arctic by realising a number of human security issues.…”

Section: The Cybersecurity Framework In the Context Of Arctic Climatementioning

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Conceptualising Human-centric Cyber Security in the Arctic in Light of Digitalisation and Climate Change

Klein

Hossain

2020

Arctic Review

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The following article revisits existing scholarship on human-centric approaches to security in cyberspace and argues that a holistic understanding of cyber security in the Arctic must include discussion of the use of cyber technology in the everyday lives of individuals and communities, addressing both the ways such tools enable and undermine human security. Simultaneously, the article contextualises the Arctic as a region undergoing rapid change as a result of climate change and increased digitalisation and seeks to understand the consequent implications for human security. In light of these considerations, the article analyses the existing constraints and possibilities that cyber security and digitalisation pose for human security and revisits them from a humancentric perspective of cyber security. It also seeks to contextualise such security influences in relation to the role of climate change and its influence on the region. Finally, several examples are discussed to underline the interdependent implications of digitalisation and climate change from a human-centric perspective of cyber security in the Arctic.

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Social Exclusion as Human Insecurity: A Human Cybersecurity Framework Applied to the European High North

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Age-Related Digital Divide during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China

Age-Related Digital Divide during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China

Can foundational economy save regions in crisis?

Conceptualising Human-centric Cyber Security in the Arctic in Light of Digitalisation and Climate Change

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