The gray digital divide.

We live in a digital society, defined by information flow via social global networks, that progressively in-tegrates and adapts to the development of new technologies. Information and communication technology (ICT) shape our society, they have significantly modified the way we live and work. From the emergence of the digital society, the concept of digital Digital Rights were also conceived. Digital rights can be defined as human rights in the internet era. These rights include several important principles according to the European Union such as: accessible human centered digital public services and admin-istration, access to digital health services, secure and trusted online environments, ethical principles for human-centered digital public services administration. Already in 2006 the European Union has made electronic inclusion (e-Inclusion) a political priority. As and more and more traditional daily service are moving online in this era of digitalization, there is a high risk for elders to be left behind. The elderly face a significant digital divide. Elders respect to the young population have not grown up in a digital society and often lack digital literacy and tend to have less desire and more difficulties to learn to use digital media, they are less likely to use internet than the average population. Several studies have shown that elders active IT and Internet have greater chances of remaining independent longer (Czaja & Lee, 2007), but despite these potential benefits elders have less access to In-ternet and IT in general. In Italy, in particular, since is one of the oldest countries in the world, ageing related digital divide is quite diffused. Italy, in fact, is the nation with the oldest population in Europe: 22.8% of the population is over 65. This is about 14 million people, half of whom are over 75. Compared to 10 years ago, the over 65s have grown by around 1.8 million. The latest data from Istat (2020) show a deep digital divide: more that 67% of Italian elders (aged 65 and over) do not know how to use the Internet. Elders risk to be excluded by many health and administrative, bank services that moved towards digital systems. The aim of this study is analyze recent research on grey digital divide and how these complex phenomenon, needs multifaceted efforts to promote the digital inclusion of elderly auspicated by the European Union. We maintain that the grey digital divide is a huma rights and social justice issue.