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Prerana Pakhrin Misrahi Communications Specialist, Society and Innovation, World Economic Forum
The theme for World Day of Social Justice 2021 is A Call for Social Justice in the Digital Economy.
We asked four experts to share their views on how to ensure social justice in a digital world.
2020 was a revealing year. The exponential rate of technological change in the past decade was already posing certain challenges and threats to vulnerable communities, supporting a largely unequal Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Compounding on this, in 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the existing, deep-rooted inequalities in societies across the world and further exacerbated it.