Digital exclusion and the implementation of selected sustainable development goals in EU countries
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3846/tede.2026.26020Abstract
Dynamic development of digital technologies and the Internet in the 1990s. and the beginning of the 21st century significantly influenced the directions of social, economic and cultural development of societies in all countries of the world. A negative consequence of this process is the phenomenon of digital exclusion. The aim of this work is to measure this phenomenon in EU countries in 2023 and assess it in the context of the sustainable development goals. For this purpose, synthetic taxonomic measures were constructed using the TOPSIS method. The source of data was the Eurostat database, from which selected information from the ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) study and indicators describing the level of sustainable development. The research results show that EU countries were clearly differentiated in terms of the level of digital exclusion. This also had an impact on their implementation of selected sustainable development goals.
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