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Illectronism or the digitally excluded

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17% of French people are affected by illiteracy.

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By: Anne Corpet Follow

1 min

Illiteracy: the word entered the dictionary in 2020. It is composed of electronic illiteracy and designates the difficulty or inability to use computer tools.

A disability that poses many problems.

More and more procedures are dematerialized, and you now have to go online to declare your taxes, obtain an identity document, or even register for unemployment.

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The start-up nation does not include everyone: 17% of French people are concerned with electronics.

Of course, the phenomenon also affects other countries, because the cost of the equipment is too expensive, because the Internet network is not widespread enough or because computers represent for many a hostile world, which we has trouble taming.

Décryptage today takes a look at these digitally excluded with our guests 

director of Internet without borders and 

, director of operations at WeTechCare. 

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