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February 5, 2020Leave a commentUncategorizedBy defwp-user

South Asia has the largest unconnected population across the globe. In the contemporary world, with mobile phones emerging as the first choice for digital initiation, the South Asians are gradually marking their presence on the world map as the largest ‘mobile first’ population to join the netizens. Sure, South Asians as a whole are still struggling to grasp the chains of the digital era but the brunt of digital illiteracy is still borne by the women. The patriarchal orientations of our societies limit the scope of digital penetration to only men.Read More

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