Guest editors: Loredana IVAN & Alina DUDUCIUC

The current special issues brings into attending the use of digital technologies later in life and shed the light of a social groups that would always left behind in the technology adoption, not necessarily because they are old, but because we will all have a limited capacity to embrace and develop new skills in areas and with devices we have not been used in out formative year. This issue is timely, as the pandemic COVID-19 shows the importance of digital technologies for older people in critical times and how societies should create equal opportunities for the groups at risks of social exclusions and marginalization when it comes to technology infrastructure and basic skills.