With so much of the world's activities tasking place online - everything from shopping to banking to voting to learning - internet access ought to be a universal right. So argues Albert Sangrà, director for the UNESCO Chair in Education & Technology for Social Change (original in Portuguese). "It has to be a very important first step," he argues. "We could compare it with past times, when faced with the need to shorten another gap, that of literacy, the creation of public libraries was promoted, in order to facilitate the population's access to books and reading. Accessing books did not automatically literate people, but it was a necessary and essential first step."
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