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In a rapid and advancing process, a new kind of society is emerging and generating a new kind of inequality. The breakthrough from an industrial to an information society has consequences that have transformed, in a radical and permanent manner, the context of economic activities and the way our societies function. All these new conditions — the global context of the information society and its technological dimension — generate new needs regarding access to information and knowledge.
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Flecha, R., Puigvert, L. (2001). Lifelong Learning and Developing Society. In: Aspin, D., Chapman, J., Hatton, M., Sawano, Y. (eds) International Handbook of Lifelong Learning. Springer International Handbooks of Education, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0916-4_14
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