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Communities in the Global South found innovative ways to adapt technology during COVID

Dean Yolande E. Chan
Published: 23 March 2022

Access to technology is deeply uneven. Many of us take the internet for granted, but nearly 40 per cent of the world’s population has never even been online. When the pandemic closed schools, not everyone could just switch to online learning. But communities that lacked access to technology found other ways to stay connected. A new study co-authored by Desautels Dean and James Â鶹AV Professor Yolande E. Chan examined how communities in the Global South responded to the pandemic by repurposing readily available technologies in innovative ways.

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