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We're excited to welcome two new members to the A4AI Advisory Council: Osama Manzar, Founder and Director of Digital Empowerment Foundation, and Ebele Okobi, Facebook’s Director of Public Policy, Africa.

2015 was an eventful year for broadband access across the world. What access developments and trends will we see in 2016? Our team members offer seven predictions for the year ahead.

As we move forward into 2016, the Web Foundation's Africa Regional Director Nnenna Nwakanma reflects on 2015 and the state of the Web across Africa.

The working groups of the A4AI-Myanmar Coalition came together earlier this month to discuss progress on work toward affordable, universal access and to set key next steps to kickstart efforts in 2016.

Earlier this week, Ghana launched a new National Gender Policy that outlines a strategy for incorporating gender equality considerations into the country’s development agenda.

The ITU’s recently released Measuring the Information Society 2015 report highlighted the progress we’ve made toward increasing access to affordable Internet across the globe. But if prices are dropping, why is growth slowing?

Last week, A4AI National Coalitions in both Nigeria and Ghana came together for quarterly meetings to discuss challenges to and progress made toward increasing access to affordable Internet in each nation.   On November 24, A4AI Honorary Chair and former…

This week, A4AI had the opportunity to speak to the United States Congress on the importance of increasing women’s access to technology across the globe at a hearing convened by the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs on “Women and…

This blog post was written by Will Burnfield of Great Village International Consultants, with inputs from Dhanaraj Thakur, A4AI Research Manager.    Public-Private Partnership (PPP) investments that combine public and private funding have been used extensively over the past decade…