Tackling Affordability Together To Bridge The Digital Divide

The next ten years will see the mobile industry take centre stage as we come together and partner with Africa’s nation states to help the continent achieve its overall transformational goals, as laid out in the African Union’s ‘Africa We Want’ Agenda 2063. Mobile has, for more than a decade, been a key focus across […]

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The Digital Divide: Africa The Least Connected With 60 Percent Of The Population Offline

By Thalif Deen The digital divide – between the world’s rich and poor nations —remains staggeringly wide. For over 2.7 billion people, many of them living in developing and least developed countries (LDCs), meaningful connectivity remains elusive, according to a UN report released during the 17th Internet Governance Forum in Addis Ababa, last month. “Bridging the […]

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