Denise Charlton: Digital inequality, our biggest post-Covid challenge

How people were left behind during the Covid-19 pandemic because they could not access the digital world is one of those hard questions we must address, writes Denise Charlton, chief executive of the Community Foundation for Ireland.

The digital divide and its different impacts on people, such as in the case of homeschooling, has been emphasised by the pandemic. Picture: iStock

Coping with the long shadow of Covid-19 and responding to the challenges it casts is a huge job of work which will require another national effort. The palpable relief over vaccine roll-out must not be mistaken as the end of this crisis.

The pandemic has surfaced underlying challenges ignored for too long but are now critical if we are ever to become a country of equals. These are in no-way unique to our communities.