Digital & AI literacy still depend on factors such as access, infrastructure, language, education, and resources, and without intentional investment, technological progress will widen, not narrow, existing inequalities.
At Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice, we have spent this year raising awareness with partners and colleagues that digital & AI skills are becoming part of the baseline required to operate in our increasingly technological world.
We have developed a Digital & AI Skills Pocketbook (soon available on our website in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Ukrainian, Bosnian and Nepali) that distils essential tips on 📌digital hygiene, 📌online safety and 📌responsible AI use in a clear and user-friendly format.
For this Human Rights day, let’s reflect on the fact that as information, participation, expression, work, education, and access to justice increasingly depend on digital tools, gaps in digital & AI literacy inevitably become gaps in the enjoyment of human rights. Ensuring that more people can navigate this digital landscape is therefore essential to safeguarding equal and meaningful access to rights in the world we are living in.
