Barcelona pilot programme narrows in on the digital divide

Barcelona is running a pilot project to help inform a city-wide digital inclusion policy.

The Connectem Barcelona (Barcelona Connects) programme will run from September for a year with 400 households in the Trinitat Nova neighbourhood of the Nou Barris district, which is one of Barcelona’s lowest-income areas and has been hit hard by unemployment during the pandemic.

Laia Bonet, Barcelona

Laia Bonet, Barcelona’s Deputy Mayor for the 2030 Agenda, the Digital Transition and International Relations, told Cities Today: "We want to generate evidence on what kind of policies and public interventions work best to tackle the digital divide. It is a fairly new form of inequality and there is...