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Title: THE DIGITAL INEQUALITY IN THE LIGHT OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: CASE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
THE DIGITAL INEQUALITY IN THE LIGHT OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS: CASE OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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Ruslan Sadyrtdinov; Ekaterina Eremeeva; Julia Varlamova
10.5593/sgem2023/5.1/s21.63
10.5593/sgem2023/5.1
1314-2704
978-619-7603-60-6
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•    Prof. DSc. Oleksandr Trofymchuk, UKRAINE 
•    Prof. Dr. hab. oec. Baiba Rivza, LATVIA
Environmental Economics
The development of the digital society in the light of the world’s sustainable development is uneven. The intensity of ICT processes for different groups of households varies greatly. The immersion of the population into the digital environment caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in an extreme social situation and self-isolation with the ensuing political, social and economic consequences has not yet been properly studied by the scientists and practitioners. In this regard, it is proposed to analyze the relationship between social deprivation, including that associated with the digital divide, and the inclusion of the households in the digital society in the context of an extreme social situation associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Using long-term data from RLMS Survey, data on the presence of digital technologies in the life of the households, their inclusion in the digital society the non-digital individuals profile was revealed. In order to study the digital inequality and its predictors with the risk for the SDGs implementation two logit regressions were constructed. In 2019 and 2020 all the coefficients are statistically significant. In both years the same indicators growth increases the risk of getting into the group of non-digital individuals. Among such predictors are incomplete secondary education, the living in rural area and the disabilities. All of them are challenges for SDGs implementation.
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The study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 23-28-01651, https://rscf.ru/project/23-28-01651/
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