Status of Government Policy Progress on Internet Connectivity Prices
COVID-19 digital response has laid bare the scale and consequences of the digital divide and underlined the urgent need to find solutions to digital inequality.
Governments...
Meaningful Connectivity: A New Standard for Internet Access
The Covid-19 pandemic has galvanised the case for universal internet access like never before, generating widespread agreement that the internet is too important...
Five Ways We Should Do Development Differently in a Digital Age – Your Weekend Long Reads
Caribou Digital turns five years old this year. While 2019 is a rapidly changing digital world, 2014 felt very different. Different elections, different technological...
New GSMA Toolkit: How to Research Women’s Internet Access and Use
Internet access and use has grown rapidly, however, internet growth has been unequal; the ITU estimates that, globally, women are 12% less likely than men to use...
Is Zero-Rated Internet Access Connecting the Unconnected?
As the debate around zero-rated services (like Facebook’s Free Basics, Twitter Access, and Wikipedia Zero) and other emerging mobile data models continues, data...
Technology Salon: How Are We Making Affordable Broadband Internet Access a Reality?
San Francisco Technology Salon: Sign Up to Get Invited
We all know that broadband connectivity is an accelerant for social and economic development. The last year...
The 4 Barriers to Affordable Internet in 46 Emerging and Developing Countries
Three in five of the world’s people are not connected to the Internet. This digital divide hampers economic and social progress.
The Alliance for Affordable Internet’s...