Last week, the ITU released its latest edition of ICT Facts & Figures, which looks at the global ICT landscape in 2015 and the role that the ICT revolution has played in driving global development. The data highlights just…
A4AI Executive Director Sonia Jorge and Policy Manager Kojo Boakye will be participating at the upcoming Commonwealth Broadband Forum 2015, which will take place June 16-17, 2015 in Abuja, Nigeria. This year’s event, “Broadband for All: From Access to…
A4AI is pleased to share with you our new paper, “Universal Access and Service Funds in the Broadband Era: The Collective Investment Imperative.” This study — the first in a series of thematic briefings and papers analysing key issues…
At the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), our approach to increasing access to affordable Internet in emerging economies across the globe is focused upon policy and regulatory reform. But what exactly do we mean by “policy” and “regulation”? And how…
The below is a cross-post from the Web Foundation blog. On April 16, Nnenna Nwakanma, Africa Regional Coordinator for the Web Foundation and the Alliance for Affordable Internet, delivered a barnstorming speech during the opening ceremony of the…
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…
Latin American countries nabbed six of the top ten spots in this year’s Affordability Index. The high ranking of the Latin American countries is not a coincidence. The region has been leading policy and regulatory innovation in the telecom…
A4AI’s annual Affordability Report explores the drivers of affordable Internet across 51 developing and emerging countries. READ IT HERE
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…