Social Justice in the Digital Economy - By Chronicle Editorial Team

Are technological advances and equitable development at odds? That’s one question in focus as we mark World Day of Social Justice, which this year looks closer at how to ensure the digital economy does not deepen inequality. Visions of a global knowledge-based economy and universal electronic commerce, characterized by the ‘death of distance’ must be tempered by the reality that half the world’s population has never made a telephone call, much less accessed the Internet.

• Since the coronavirus outbreak began more than a year ago, digital technology has felt like our savior, keeping societies and economies functioning. However, the uneven diffusion ....