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A4AI recently kicked off its activities in Myanmar — where hopes and expectations are high for the government and telecom operators to deliver Internet access as widely and quickly as possible.   On March 26, the Alliance hosted a forum…

This blog post was written by Kojo Boakye, A4AI’s Policy Manager.     It is exactly 10 days since the climax of the Nigerian election and, depending on your news source or with whom you speak, Nigerians have either given…

We’re delighted to announce that Myanmar has today become the newest member — and first Asia-Pacific nation — to join the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI).   A4AI Executive Director Sonia Jorge and Myanmar’s Honorable Deputy Minister of Communication and…

More than two billion people in developing and emerging countries are priced out of accessing the Internet. That is one of the key findings of this year's A4AI Affordability Report, which is being unveiled in Barcelona today at Mobile World Congress.

This blog post was written by Nnenna Nwakanma, A4AI’s Africa Regional Coordinator, who recently returned from a trip to Ghana.    This is Zongo in Accra, Ghana.   The most important entry you will find for it in Wikipedia is…

Here at A4AI, we spent the few weeks before the start of the new year thinking about our predictions for the expansion of global broadband access in 2015. On the whole, we are hopeful that more governments will realise the necessity and benefit of policies that will encourage affordable and open access to the Internet for their citizens, and that innovation and competition will lower broadband service and device prices and enable millions more to get online.