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Today, the Alliance for Affordable Internet is pleased to release our first case study on a Latin America country. We’ve picked Peru – a fascinating country with multiple challenges including challenging topography, a dominant telecoms operator and a wide urban/rural…

On June 23, A4AI hosted a working meeting of the A4AI-Ghana Coalition at the Kofi Annan ICT Centre in Accra, Ghana – an opportunity for coalition members to hash out what they can do to reduce the price of Internet access in the country.

The open Web has the potential to transform Africa – and the world – combating poverty, strengthening democracy and allowing journalists to tell stories differently and engage more closely with their audiences. This was the clear message today as the…

Today, A4AI hosted our first in-country meeting in Maputo. In many ways, this meeting was a first for our growing Alliance – our first meeting in a Portuguese-speaking country and our first time working in a SADC nation.  We were…

Here’s a clip of Nnenna Nwakanma, Africa regional co-ordinator for the Web Foundation and the Alliance for Affordable Internet, discussing broadband access and internet affordability at the recent Stockholm Internet Forum.     The Stockholm Internet Forum (SIF) is a…

Ahead of the Activate Johannesburg Summit 2014, A4AI Honorary Chair Bitange Ndemo spoke to the Guardian about the impact of the internet on Africa in its first 25 years and what future challenges and opportunities lie ahead for the web.

Today, we're pleased to release our second country case study. This time around, A4AI has turned our focus onto Nigeria - the first African country to join the Alliance in October 2013.

As the world celebrated the World Wide Web’s 25th anniversary last week, A4AI gathered more than 80 influential Nigerians working in the technology sector at an interactive forum in Abuja.

A4AI proudly hosted its first in-country engagement last month in Accra. Technology leaders from across Ghana and the rest of the world gathered at our interactive forum in the warm capital city of Accra. The forum, the first of its kind, had a very clear mission: to bring about policy change to make broadband internet more affordable and ensure universal access.

Today in Accra, Ghana’s capital city, A4AI will host our first-ever in-country forum. The meeting will unite around 50 diverse players such as policy makers, technology pioneers, civil society groups, campaigners and researchers. Attendees will share insights and hammer out…

Access to the Internet brings freedom: social, economic and cultural freedom. Unfortunately, Mandela could not finish this walk in Qunu, nor in South Africa. How long will it take to have affordable Internet? How long will it take to connect Qunu, Africa?

The Alliance for Affordable Internet continues to grow stronger from month to month, and has now reached 52 members and local partners - including country governments, influential civil society and academic bodies and some of the world’s largest technology companies and networks.