Costs of Exclusion Report

Across the world, millions of people are still unable to access the internet and participate online — and women are disproportionately excluded. Men are 21% more likely to be online than women globally, rising to 52% in Least Developed Countries.

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Affordable Internet – Journey from 1 to 5

A4AI is revising its affordability targets from ‘1 for 2’ to the ‘Journey from 1 to 5’ and encourages governments across the world to set targets for the cost of 5GB of broadband, both mobile and fixed, to be no more than 2% of average monthly incomes by 2026.

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2020 Affordability Report

Billions of people around the world are kept offline by the cost to connect. As the world considers how to build back from the Covid-19 crisis, our 2020 Affordability Report calls for governments to develop effective national broadband plans to make internet access more affordable and enable more people to connect.

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Meaningful Connectivity — unlocking the full power of internet access

Over half of the world is now online, but many people lack the quality of access they need to use the internet’s most powerful features, such as online learning, video streaming and telehealth. It’s time to raise the bar for internet access and aim for meaningful connectivity for everyone.

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The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) is a global coalition working to drive down the cost of internet access in low- and middle-income countries through policy and regulatory reform.

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How we work

Driven by the belief that affordability should not be a barrier to internet access, we use a combination of advocacy, research, and in-country engagement to develop the policies needed to reduce the cost to connect and enable everyone, everywhere to afford to come online.

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Where we work

Our work is focused in the low- and middle-income countries where internet costs tend to be the highest, and is led by national, in-country coalitions across Africa, Asia and Latin America.

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