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Why addressing digital inequality should be a priority
Electronic journal of information systems in developing countries (EJISDC), volume (2022), 12 pp.
"This article addresses the multifaceted and far-reaching implications of digital inequality (DI), drawing upon emerging trends and examples. The aim is to sensitize policymakers, practitioners, and academics to issues surrounding DI and foster a common and deeper understanding among relevant stakeh...
Redes compartidas de Tseltales y Zapotecas: los caminos hacia un internet pluriversal
University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication
(2022), 24 pp., bibliogr. p.18-23
"Este trabajo de investigación examina el surgimiento de las redes compartidas en comunidades tseltales y zapotecas de Chiapas y Oaxaca (México): la primera milla de señal de internet compartido que articulan la infraestructura de interconexión y los valores de convivencia para extender el inter...
Inclusion, not just an add-on
Kampala:
Pollicy
(2022), 25 pp.
"This guide was created to drive conversations within technology entities to reconsider and reconceptualize how they approach inclusive design practices. Historically, inclusion has been a “nice-to-have” add-on within digital platforms, and as such, discriminates against and excludes a large pro...
What is an ideal internet to you? A global exploration of digital rights trends
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Pollicy
(2022), 56 pp., bibliogr. p.47-56
CC BY-SA
"This white paper seeks to provide an overview of the core thematic issues around digital rights and digital safety across the world. The content builds off a global mapping exercise of organisations and knowledge, predominantly focused on Africa and the Middle East, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Eas...
Meaningful connectivity for rural communities: geographic barriers & policy strategies for digital inclusion
Washington, DC:
Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation
(2022), 23 pp.
"This report details the urban-rural connectivity gap in nine low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and what that means for their potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals ... Across all nine countries [Colombia, India, Indonesia, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Mozambique, South Afri...
Advancing meaningful connectivity: towards active and participatory digital societies
Washington, DC:
Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation
(2022), 27 pp.
"This report advances the Meaningful Connectivity framework as a way to support more inclusive societies and strengthen digital economies. It measures the gap in the number of people with just basic internet access and those with meaningful connectivity and examines what this digital divide means fo...
Measuring digital development: facts and figures 2022
Geneva:
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
(2022), iv, 26 pp.
ISBN 978-92-61-37011-5 (pdf)
CC BY-NC-SA
"As the world welcomes its 8 billionth inhabitant, an estimated 5.3 billion people – roughly 66 per cent of the global population – are using the Internet. Yet some 2.7 billion people worldwide remain totally offline, with universal connectivity still a distant prospect in least developed countr...
Tseltal and Zapoteco shared networks: the paths towards a pluriversal internet
University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School for Communication
(2022), 23 pp., bibliogr. p.17-22
Other Editions: also published in Spanish
"Fernanda R. Rosa explores the Indigenous networks, principles, and practices of internet infrastructure building and sharing in Tseltal and Zapoteco sovereign territories in Chiapas and Oaxaca, Mexico. More specifically, she uses the concept of shared networks to examine “the first mile signal-sh...
The mobile gender gap report 2022
London:
GSMA
(2022), 68 pp., many illustr., many graphs
"1. Women’s uptake of mobile internet in lowand middle-income countries continues to increase, but the rate of adoption has slowed. Across low- and middle-income countries, 60 per cent of women now use mobile internet. Only 59 million additional women in low-and middle-income countries started usi...
Financing mechanisms for locally owned internet infrastructure
Connectivity Capital; Association for Progressive Communication (APC); Internet Society; Connect Humanity
(2022), 134 pp., graphs, tables
"The digital divide is not a problem the market alone will solve. We need to do things differently. Globally there is a growing movement of community connectivity providers — including community networks, municipal networks, cooperatives, and social enterprises — connecting underserved communiti...
Digital rights are human rights: an introduction to the state of affairs and challenges in Africa
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
(2022), 7 pp.
ISBN 978-99945-77-95-8
"In sub-Saharan Africa, 495 million people (46 percent of the population) subscribed to mobile phones in 2020, however, the cost of accessing the internet is very high and many African Governments are renowned for restricting access to the internet to limit critics and their opposition through inter...
Mobile technology and social transformations: access to knowledge in global contexts
London; New York:
Routledge
(2021), xviii, 180 pp.
ISBN 978-0-367-54522-2 (hbk); 978-0-367-54524-6 (pbk); 978-1-00-308957-5 (online)
"This book investigates the ways in which the mobile telephone has transformed societies around the world, bringing both opportunities and challenges. At a time when knowledge and truth are increasingly contested, the book asks how mobile technology has changed the ways in which people create, disse...
Affordability report 2021: a new strategy for universal access
Washington, DC:
Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation
(2021), 28 pp.
"This report is the eighth edition of the Affordability Report. Released annually by the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), the report summarises the state of internet affordability around the world and of the policies and regulations that affect it ... The latest update of the Affordability D...
Sustainable, universal access to the internet: environmental implications and policy choices
Washington, DC:
Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI); World Wide Web Foundation
(2021), 29 pp., bibliogr. p.24-26
"This report analyses how governments are building climate and carbon factors into their broadband policies, looks at the consequences of inaction, and suggests policy recommendations towards a greener internet. We compiled publicly available documents for the national broadband plans from the 100 l...
Minimum data consumption: how much is needed to support online activities, and is it affordable?
World Bank
(2021), 19 pp., bibliogr. p.17-19
"The primary payment method for mobile internet usage in most developing countries is prepaid, with the amount tied to a specific volume of data usage. Data volume is therefore a useful yardstick to determine how much is needed to carry out important welfare enhancing activities online. For foundati...
Mobile internet connectivity 2021: Sub-Saharan Africa key trends
GSMA
(2021), 3 pp.
"Over half a billion people who are living in areas with a mobile broadband network are not using mobile internet, despite substantial increases in mobile broadband coverage since 2014. Significant gender and rural-urban gaps persist. Women are 37% less likely to use mobile internet than men. Signif...
Manual de redes comunitárias
Association for Progressive Communication (APC)
(2021), 90 pp.
"Este manual reúne informações a partir de experiências concretas de redes comunitárias no Brasil e América Latina para responder a perguntas como: o que são redes comunitárias? Que tipos existem? Como planejar, implementar, instalar e gerir uma rede comunitária? Dessa maneira, esta publica...
Desigualdades digitales: aproximación sociojurídica al acceso a Internet en Colombia
Bogotá:
Editorial Dejusticia
(2021), 106 pp., bibliogr. p.99-106
ISBN 978-958-5597-87-7 (pdf); 978-958-5597-86-0 (print)
CC BY-NC-SA
"En este texto nos preguntamos, en concreto, por los efectos de la desigualdad económica en el acceso a las tecnologías digitales, en especial a Internet y, por ende, a los derechos que se ejercen a través suyo. También nos preguntamos por la caracterización jurídica del acceso a Internet, tan...
The state of mobile internet connectivity 2022
London:
GSMA
(2021), 76 pp., many illustr., many graphs
"Mobile internet use has reached 55% of the world's population. By the end of 2021, 4.3 billion people were using mobile internet, an increase of almost 300 million since the end of 2020. Growth in mobile internet adoption has almost entirely been driven by people living in low- and middle-income co...
