Italy's communications regulator AGCOM
said Tuesday that 12.7% of Italian students did not have access
to distance learning during the coronavirus lockdown.
It said this figure was "unacceptable for an advanced
democracy".
The authority said the pandemic has exacerbated "pre-existing
social and digital inequalities" and risked "compromising the
slow process of digitalization" in Italy.
It said the problem was especially serious in Italy's less
wealthy southern regions.
The authority said Italian families' "inadequate" technological
resources were "a significant obstacle and an unacceptable
condition in the case of access to essential services such as
education".
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