LA JUSTICE NUMÉRIQUE

The document argues that digital justice is an extension of social and ecological justice, requiring a multi-dimensional approach to address the digital divide, surveillance, and the weaponization of information. It emphasizes that communication is a fundamental human right and calls for a faith-inspired movement to resist the concentration of power in tech monopolies and state surveillance. The guide highlights specific vulnerabilities of women, ethnic minorities, and disabled persons, while linking digital consumption to environmental degradation through electronic waste and energy use.

• The digital divide is a gap of privilege and power where nearly half of the world's 8 billion inhabitants lack internet access or the skills to use digital technologies effectively.
• Gender inequality significantly impacts digital access; for example, in South Asia, women are 70% less likely to own a smartphone than men, and in the 46 least developed countries, only 19% of women used the internet in 2020.
• Digital spaces are often controlled for profit by a few US-based tech giants, with Meta's value at the end of 2022 being higher than the GDP of many countries.
• Digital resources are being weaponized through hate speech, disinformation, and military applications, including the development of autonomous weapons and mass surveillance tools.
• State and corporate surveillance has increased, particularly during the pandemic, with at least 75 countries using AI for surveillance, specifically for facial recognition or law enforcement.
• The digital economy has a severe ecological impact, characterized by planned obsolescence and the dumping of electronic waste from rich countries into poor ones, where it contaminates soil and water.
• Racial and ethnic minorities face systemic exclusion in the digital sphere, including biased facial recognition technology and natural language processing tools that struggle to recognize minority dialects or hate speech in specific contexts.
• In the Philippines, digital tools have been used for state repression and social engineering, exemplified by the collection of private data from over 1.2 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica to influence public attitudes.

APA

Green, E. (2022). LA JUSTICE NUMÉRIQUE. World Association for Christian Communication. https://waccglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/JusticeNumerique_GuideEtude.pdf

Chicago

Green, Erin. LA JUSTICE NUMÉRIQUE. World Association for Christian Communication, 2022. https://waccglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/JusticeNumerique_GuideEtude.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{green2022justice, author = {Green, Erin}, title = {{LA JUSTICE NUMÉRIQUE}}, institution = {World Association for Christian Communication}, year = {2022}, url = {https://waccglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/JusticeNumerique_GuideEtude.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }