老年数字鸿沟的法律治理

Legal Governance of the Digital Divide of the Elderly

摘要: 老年数字鸿沟实质上是一个权利问题。从权利角度看，老年数字鸿沟的本质根源是老年人的权利贫困导致的可行能力匮乏，即围绕着数字生活的老年人在话语权、参与权、平等权、受教育权等关系数字行动的权利缺失所导致的可行能力的不足。只有消除数字社会中老年人的权利贫困，才能提高老年人按照自己意愿来开展数字生活的权利能力和行为能力，才能借助于权利–义务–责任的法律框架，建构起有利于破解老年数字鸿沟的规范性社会行动方案，这具体包括了推动社会平等性数字权利观念的发展、增强老年人数字权利的法律保障等方面，其目标是把老年数字鸿沟的治理纳入以老年人实质权利获得为中心的制度与社会改革的法律轨道之中。

Abstract: The digital divide of the elderly is essentially a question of rights. From the perspective of rights, the essential root of the digital divide of the elderly is the lack of feasible ability caused by the poverty of the rights of the elderly, that is, the lack of feasible ability caused by the lack of digital action rights surrounding the right to speak, participation, equality and education of the elderly in digital life. Only by eliminating the poverty of the rights of the elderly in the digital society can we improve the right capacity and behavioral capacity of the elderly to carry out digital life according to their own wishes, and can we build normative social action plans conducive to cracking the digital divide of the elderly with the help of the legal framework of right-duty-responsibility. This specifically includes promoting the development of the concept of social equality digital rights, strengthening the legal protection of digital rights of the elderly, and so on, with the goal of integrating the governance of the digital divide of the elderly into the legal track of institutional and social reform centered on the acquisition of substantive rights of the elderly.