Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Millions across Asia, Africa, Latin America and Oceania remain locked out of meaningful digital participation and from the digital services that increasingly shape everyday life, despite two decades of investment. A new study from the University of Surrey warns that the real barrier is the failure of major actors to work together. The study, published in the Management and Organization Review , draws on evidence from 122 studies across the Global South which show that access to mobile networks, affordable internet and digital skills is improving yet whole communities are still excluded from education, finance and basic services because governments, businesses and international organizations continue to act in isolation. The research team found that the biggest obstacle is fragmentation of effort, with policies, technologies and training programs happening in parallel but rarely in partnership.…