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Policy brief and recommendations for an enabling environment for community networks in Brazil
Association for Progressive Communication (APC)
(2021)
ISBN 978-92-95113-47-3
CC BY
Other Editions: also published in Portuguese
"The policy brief we hereby present to the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) includes recommendations and specific proposals to enable community networks in Brazil, considering extensive research in both the global and Brazilian context, the state of the art of these small, not-f...
Promoting smart policy options in closing the gender digital divide in Uganda
Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET); Centre for Multilateral Affairs (CfMA)
(2021), 11 pp.
"Although the internet facilitates connection, participation, and engagement, there is a need for new and innovative strategies for closing the gender digital divide in Uganda. A socio-economic, political, and robustic legal approach is needed to close the gender digital divide. This requires regula...
Measuring digital development: facts and figures 2021
Geneva:
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
(2021), iv, 26 pp.
ISBN 978-92-61-35401-5 (pdf)
"An estimated 4.9 billion people are using the Internet in 2021, according to latest estimates in this 2021 edition of Measuring Digital Development: Facts and figures. That means that roughly 63 per cent of the world’s population is now online – an increase of 17 per cent – with almost 800 mi...
The mobile gender gap report 2021
London:
GSMA
(2021), 65 pp., many illustr., many graphs
"1. Women’s access to mobile internet continues to increase across low- and middle-income countries, while mobile ownership remains relatively flat: 83 per cent of women own a mobile phone and 58 per cent use mobile internet. Women are also more likely than men to access the internet exclusively o...
The state of mobile internet connectivity 2021
GSMA
(2021), 66 pp., many illustr., many graphs, glossary p.66
"Six years ago, about a third of the world’s population were using mobile internet. Today, it is more than half. Despite this progress, the pandemic has highlighted how big gaps in connectivity persist, even in high-income markets. 3.8 billion people still do not have access to the internet – du...
Digital inclusion across the globe: what is being done to tackle digital inequities?
Social inclusion, volume 8, issue 2 (2020), pp. 132-259
The digital exclusion of women with disabilities: a study of seven low- and middle-income countries
London:
GSMA
(2020), 43 pp.
"1. Women with disabilities have among the lowest rates of mobile and smartphone ownership. In most countries, ownership gaps are widest between men without disabilities and women with disabilities. Even in countries where the mobile gender gap is small or nonexistent, there is still a disability ga...
From digital divide to social inclusion: a tale of mobile platform empowerment in rural areas
Sustainability, volume 12, issue 1,933333333 (2020), 16 pp.
"The digital divide in rural areas is an important social issue, especially in developing countries. Although Internet and broadband penetration have increased in the world generally, there are many obstacles for rural China to get access to ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and its ser...
Connected: how a Mexican village built its own cell phone network
Oakland, Calif.:
University of California Press
(2020), xiii, 259 pp., glossary p.223-230, bibliogr. p.231-248, index
ISBN 978-0-520-34420-4 (hbk); 978-0-520-34421-1 (pbk); 978-0-520-97540-8 (ebook)
"This is the true story of how, against all odds, a remote Mexican pueblo built its own autonomous cell phone network – without help from telecom companies or the government. Anthropologist Roberto J. González paints a vivid and nuanced picture of life in a Oaxaca mountain village and the collect...
Mobile internet connectivity 2020 Sub-Saharan Africa factsheet
GSMA
(2020), 2 pp.
"There are now more than 3.8 billion mobile internet subscribers globally, representing 49% of the world’s population. However, adoption has not been equitable, with mobile internet adoption standing at 26% in Sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2019. The region accounts for almost half of the global...
Exclusión y deriva: dinámicas fronterizas de la digitalidad
México, DF:
Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México; Taurus; Fundación Telefónica
(2020), 192 pp.
ISBN 978-607-319-006-0
"[Este libro] presenta ocho capítulos que se muestran críticos frente a las posibilidades y promesas de la cultura digital, denunciando que la red ha reproducido las formas de desigualdad del mundo analógico. Los autores proponen una reflexión crítica frente a ciertos discursos que se presentan...
Reaching 50 million women with mobile: a practical guide
London:
GSMA; Altai Consulting
(2020), 41 pp.
"The persistent gender gap in mobile access and use is already well documented, as are the significant benefits of closing it. Across low- and middle-income countries today, women are eight per cent less likely than men to own a mobile phone, 20 per cent less likely to use mobile internet and 33 per...
Measuring digital development: facts and figures
Geneva:
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
(2020), 17 pp.
ISBN 978-92-61-32511-4
"Facts and Figures 2020 reveals that people in rural areas continue to face greater challenges than people in urban areas in terms of remaining connected during the lockdown, especially in developing economies. Large swathes of the rural landscape are still not covered by mobile broadband networks, ...
Meaningful connectivity: a new standard to raise the bar for internet access
Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)
(2020), 18 pp.
"The meaningful connectivity standard is a tool to raise the bar for internet access and set more ambitious policy goals for digital development. It sets minimum thresholds across the four dimensions of internet access that matter most to users. These are: regular internet use - minimum threshold: d...
Smartphone ownership is growing rapidly around the world, but not always equally: in emerging economies, technology use still much more common among young people and the well-educated
Pew Research Center
(2019), 46 pp.
"Mobile technology has spread rapidly around the globe. Today, it is estimated that more than 5 billion people have mobile devices, and over half of these connections are smartphones. But the growth in mobile technology to date has not been equal, either across nations or within them. People in adva...
Mapping the digital divide in Africa: a mediated analysis
Amsterdam:
Amsterdam University Press
(2019), 278 pp., 5 figures, 5 tables, index
ISBN 978-94-6298-685-5
"This is a timely and much-needed collection that fills an important gap in the literature. It offers excellent conceptual tools and a selection of case studies that provide a useful map of the digital divide across the African continent and between Africa and the rest of the world. I especially app...
Measuring digital development: facts and figures 2019
Geneva:
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
(2019), ii, 11 pp.
ISBN 978-92-61-29521-9
"Welcome to the first of ITU’s Measuring Digital Development series of statistical and analytical publications that replace the annual Measuring the Information Society Report. Facts and figures 2019 offers a snapshot of the most important ICT indicators, including estimates for the current year. ...
Connected women: the mobile gender gap report 2018
London:
GSMA
(2018), 28 pp.
"In low- and middle-income countries women are 10% less likely than men to own a mobile phone. Over 1.2 billion women do not use mobile internet. There is a significant gender gap in mobile usage - particularly for more transformational services. Women in South Asia are 26% less likely to own a mobi...
Digital inclusion: an international comparative analysis
Lanham:
Lexington Books
(2018), xx, 223 pp., index
ISBN 978-1-4985-6212-6
"The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink...
Ericsson mobility report
Ericsson
(2016), 31 pp., illustr., abbrev. p.31
"In this Ericsson Mobility Report, we continue to describe the evolution towards the Networked Society. Between 2015 and 2021, the Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to increase at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent, making up close to 16 billion of the total forecast 28 billion ...
