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South Africa has no comprehensive national media literacy programme. Often it comes down to individual teachers and schools to make learners more media literate.
There is little evidence organisations consider digital accessibility by default. It usually happens if they have a senior accessibility champion in their ranks, or when they get sued.
Many vulnerable people are unable to engage with their energy usage online, leading to higher bills and even debt and illness.
The shift to emergency remote teaching and learning enabled academics to start questioning some long-held assumptions about in-person teaching and learning.
Contributing to global knowledge, from the lens of local experience, can lead to solutions to universal problems such as inequality and climate change.
Policies need to address human develop challenges, if people are to be equitably brought on line.
The ideas about the Fourth Industrial Revolution being punted by the World Economic Forum will fail to contribute to economic growth and job creation, and will amplify existing inequalities.
Top contributors
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Adjunct Professor, Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Director Internationalisation., Rhodes University
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Lecturer, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Research Fellow, School of Geographical Science, University of Bristol
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Academic Director: Digital Learning, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant Dean: Teaching and Learning (Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management), University of the Witwatersrand
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University of the Witwatersrand
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Researcher in Digital Inequality, Sheffield Hallam University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer - Science and Mathematics, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Dean (Teaching and Learning), School of Science, Edith Cowan University
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University
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Lecturer in Journalism, University of Sheffield
