RESISTIRE factsheet: Digital Transformation for an Inclusive Post-COVID Recovery

Recommendations to policymakers to mitigate the gendered impacts of Covid-19 based on RESISTIRÉ findings

The sudden acceleration of the digitalisation of public services, healthcare, work, education, and overall human interactions caused by the pandemic response has had an unequivocal impact on people’s lives and especially on those most vulnerable. On the one hand, digital acceleration created conditions for the formation of new inequalities and for the reproduction of existing ones, as many people were excluded from access to the tools and the knowledge required to utilise them and were therefore also excluded from the benefits of the digital transformation.

On the other hand, digital acceleration allowed people and communities to stay connected in a time of physical (social) distancing; it facilitated the continuation of activities carried out by civil society; it made some public services more accessible; and it provided an opportunity to re-think digital inclusion and the role of digital technologies in times of crises.