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Household control, device sharing, damage and income shocks can cause recurrent loss of access.

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Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗

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Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗

Household control, device sharing, damage and income shocks can cause recurrent loss of access.

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Attributed contributors: Caryl Feldacker. “Household control, device sharing, damage and income shocks can cause recurrent loss of access..” Connected ≠ Ready: Getting to a Ground-Level View of AI Readiness for Women and Vulnerable Populations. ECOSYSTEM Summit, Barcelona, 16 September 2026. Session time 18:45–20:06. https://cs-ecosystem.commonshare.workers.dev/evidence/E-3ca433a926df

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Household control, device sharing, damage and income shocks can cause recurrent loss of access.

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Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗

Proposed mechanism: Social and material changes interrupt access over time.

Conditions: Consider who controls the device and recurring costs.

Limit: The visual trajectory is explicitly illustrative, not quantitative.

agencysocial normsresilienceunequal harms

Where it connects.

Device ownership and expressed interest are incomplete measures of effective access.

Charging, installation costs, household relations, usable language and trusted intermediaries determine whether a service reaches people. Starting with current users can hide exclusion.

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