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Featured
Free Access
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Key Guidance
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Quick Overview
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Top Insights
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Access to Internet & Digital Communications
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Digital Divide, Digital Inequalities
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Digital Inclusion
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Digital & Social Media Use, Internet Use
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Internet & ICTs in Rural Areas
25
Mobile Phone Use
23
Gender and ICTs / Internet
19
ICT Policies
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Telecommunication Infrastructure
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Community Telecommunication Networks
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Mobile Phone Use: Women
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Digital & Social Media Use: Youth
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Indigenous Digital & Social Media Communication
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Communication Rights
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Telecommunication Law, Regulation & Policies
10
Access to Media & Information
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Internet & Social Media Use: Women
9
Mobile Phone Markets
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Gender Advocacy & Empowerment, Gender Mainstreaming
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Freedom of Expression Online, Internet Freedom
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Digital Media Markets
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Mobile Phones, Smartphones
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Telecentres, Community Telecentres, Internet Cafés
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Internet
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Digitalization, Digital Transformation
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ICTs and Development
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ICT Indicators
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Internet Bandwith, Broadband & Backbone Networks
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Access to Media & Information: Disadvantaged Groups and Minorities
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Digital Media Landscapes
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Internet and Society / Social Change
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ICT Industries & Markets
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Digital Literacy: Youth
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Telecommunications
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Access to Media & Information: Indigenous Populations
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Digital & Social Media Use: Children
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Digital Media Censorship, Control & Filtering, Internet & Social Media Censorship
4
Community Informatics
4
Online Media & Internet Economics
4
Open Access Publishing
4
Online Learning, E-Learning
4
Female ICT Sector Personnel / Professionals
4
ICT Development Assistance
4
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
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Schools
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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Inequalities
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WLAN Wireless Internet Access
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Media
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Media Use: Youth
3
Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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ICT / Internet Projects (Development Aid)
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Free Basics (Facebook Internet Access Programme)
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
3
Electronic Commerce
3
Facebook
3
Educational Use of ICTs / Internet
3
ICTs and Poverty Reduction
3
ICT Financing
3
Gender Discrimination, Gender Inequalities
3
COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
3
Media Literacy: Youth
3
People with Disabilities: Access to & Use of ICT and Media
3
Open Data
2
Advocacy & Empowerment: Disadvantaged & Vulnerable Groups
2
Advocacy & Empowerment: Indigenous People
2
Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
2
Geography
2
Maps
2
Health Information Access & Use
2
Media Use: Lower Classes & Poor Population
2
Mobile Phone Use: Migrants & Refugees
2
Girls and Media
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Freedom of Expression
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Open Licensing, Creative Commons, Public Domain
2
Digital Ethics, AI Ethics, Social Media Ethics, Data & Information Ethics
2
Internet and Development
2
Internet Shutdowns
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Internet Markets
2
Social Media
2
Democratization & Digital Media / Social Media
2
Twitter & Microblogs
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Ecological Footprint & Sustainability of Digitalization, E-Waste & Recycling
2
Digitalisation, Online Communication & Democracy / Democratization
2
Information Society
2
Digital Economies & Markets
2
Prices
2
Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Open, Distance and Digital Education (ODDE)
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Linguistic Diversity: Internet & Digital Media
2
Digital Media Use: Migrants & Diasporas
2
People with Disabilities: Tailored ICT & Media Products
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Communication & Media Indicators
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Mobile Phones in Rural Areas
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Short Wave Radio (SW)
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Mobile & Wireless Communications Technologies
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Telecommunication Industries & Markets
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Access to Information Laws, Right to Information Regulation
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Information Gaps
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Advocacy & Empowerment: Girls
1
Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Digital Communication
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Mobile Phone Advocacy & Campaigns
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Agricultural Information & Extension
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Geographical Information Systems
1
Audiences & Users
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Audience Research Methods
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Audience Segmentation, User Typologies, Personas
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Elderly People: Internet & Social Media Use
1
Information Use & Consumption
1
Mobile Phone Use: Minorities
1
Media Use: Rural Populations
1
Media Use: Women, Female Media Audiences
1
Radio Use: Women
1
Mobile Phone Use: Youth
1
Radio Consumption, Radio Use, Radio Audiences
1
Television Consumption, Televison Use, Television Audiences
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Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
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Campaigning: Experiences
1
Catholic Church and Communication
1
Digital Media Socialisation
1
Educational Comics & Comics for Development
1
Digital Literacy: Children
1
Christian Communication Ethics, Christian Media Ethics
1
Digital Rights
1
Intellectual Property
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Plagiarism
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Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
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Anthropology of Media & Communication
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Developing Countries
1
One Laptop per Child (ICT Development Programme)
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Uno a Uno (Laptops for School Students, Latin America)
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Rural Communication for Development
1
Digital Communication, Digital Media
1
Algorithms & Big Data
1
Cybercrimes
1
Data
1
Data Governance, Data Justice, Data Sovereignty
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Data Journalism, Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting
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Digital Criticism
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Digital Entrepreneurs, Tech Entrepreneurs
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Digital Healthcare & Information, Mobile Health, E-Health, Telemedicine
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Digital Media, Internet & Religion
1
Digital Platforms & Intermediaries
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Digital Skills, Digital Production Skills
1
Internet / ICTs and Social Change
1
Internet / Social Media Law & Regulation
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Net Neutrality
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Digital Financial Services, Mobile Banking, Mobile Payphone Business
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Social Media in Political Communication
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Online News
1
Social / Digital Media and ICTs in Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Management & Prevention
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TikTok
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Generative AI, including ChatGPT et al.
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Digital Transformation Approaches
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Economic Development: Role of ICTs & Media
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ICT Effects & Impact
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ICT Regulation
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ICT Sector Development
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Disinformation, Misinformation, Fake News
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Libraries
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Poverty & Poverty Reduction
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Energy Supply, Electricity
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Market Liberalization, Economic Liberalization
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Literacy, Literacy Campaigns, Postliteracy, Alphabetisation Policies
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Gaming, Video Games
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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Feminism & Communication
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Gender Representation & Stereotypes in the Media
1
Women with Disabilities & Media
1
Indigenous Languages
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UNESCO
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News
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Local News
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Diversity & Pluralism in Media / Communication
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Crowdsourcing
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Design Thinking
1
Female Migrants / Migration
1
Music
1
People with Disabilities & Communication / Media
1
Deaf & Hard of Hearing People
1
Radio Engineering & Technologies
1
Youth & Religious Communication
1
Human Development Index (HDI)
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Sampling (Survey Methodologies, Statistics)
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Survey Methods
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Castes
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Antennas
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Digital Switchover
1
Digital Television
1
Radio Broadcasting Equipment & Technologies
1
Satellite Communication & Information Services
1
GIS, Geospatial Services
1
Development Assistance: Telecommunications
1
Mobile Phone Use for Social Purposes, Mobiles for Development
1
Remote Work, Teleworking, Working from Home
1
Telecommunication Companies, Mobile Phone & Fixed Line Operators
1
Telecommunication Licensing
1
Telephone
1
Urban Communication, Urban Media
1
Suburbs, Poor Districts, Slums, Shanty Towns
1
Urban Areas
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Youth Activism, Youth Civic Engagement, Youth Political Interests, Youth Protests
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Manual de redes comunitárias
Key Guidance
Association for Progressive Communications (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
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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.
"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
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"What do we know about the gender digital divide for girls? To date, there is little research on gender differences in digital access for children under the age of 18. These disparities in usage limit women’s access to the full range of opportunities offered by digital. However, the limited data a
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Connecting Empowerment: How Social Network Expansion in Women’s Collectives Helps Bridge the Gender Digital Divide
London: BBC Media Action (2021), 9 pp.
"This report, based on research conducted with women's empowerment collectives (self help groups, co-operatives, rights-based groups, trade unions) in India in late 2019, explores the relationship between the expansion of women's social networks in collectives, their growing empowerment, and their a
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Minimum Data Consumption: How Much is Needed to Support Online Activities, and is it Affordable?
Quick Overview
World Bank (2021), 19 pp.
"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
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"What are the impacts of expanding mobile broadband coverage on poverty, household consumption and labor market outcomes in developing countries? Who benefits from improved coverage of mobile internet? To respond to these questions, this paper applies a difference-in-differences estimation using pan
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(Des)iguales y (des)conectados: Políticas, actores y dilemas info-comunicacionales en América Latina /
Buenos Aires: CLACSO (2021), 296 pp.
Telecommunications/ICTs for rural and remote areas. Study period 2018-2021
Geneva: ITU (2021), xiii, 90 pp.
"There is need for further studies focusing on access to broadband services and how emerging technologies can be used to transform rural and remote areas into digital economies.
There is no one-size-fits-all model for financing rural connectivity and engaging all stakeholders, but creating public-pr
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Giga: Empowering communities in Asia and the Pacific through school connectivity
Geneva: ITU (2021), ix, 92 pp.
"Giga, a joint collaboration between ITU and UNICEF, is an initiative to connect every young person in the world to information, opportunity and choice. Devised before the onslaught on COVID-19, the project addresses the underlying inequities in access to the Internet. However, it is also a platform
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"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
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The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity 2022
London: GSMA (2021), 76 pp.
"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
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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
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Connectivity in the Least Developed Countries: Status report 2021
Geneva: ITU (2021), ix, 59 pp.
"In 2020, the 46 LDCs had a combined population of 1.06 billion people and are highly vulnerable, with low levels of human development. And yet, geography, population size and income vary within the group, and these different conditions affect digital development.
National data infrastructure is an
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Digital Inclusion of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia: Remote Virtual Mechanism for Usability of Telecentres Amongst Indigenous Peoples
Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), volume 87, issue 4, e12171 (2021), 14 pp.
"Turning to an ICT-based community development known as the Telecentre Programme amongst Orang Asli, an indigenous people groups in Peninsular Malaysia, this paper describes why a remote virtual management devise was invented to encounter challenges related to rugged terrain constraints, which would
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"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
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The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2021
London: GSMA (2021), 65 pp.
"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
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The State of Mobile Internet Connectivity 2021
Quick Overview
GSMA (2021), 66 pp.
"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
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