Pacific Digital Gender Scorecards: Regional Synthesis Report
This report provides a synthesis of three country reports and associated datasets collected and published by local partner organisations of A4AI and Web Foundation.
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The Costs of Exclusion: South Asia Regional Report
In this report, we highlight five policy interventions from across Asia to illustrate that action is possible. Our research documents the successes of the early adopters and describes the untapped potential in closing the digital gender gap. The REACT policy framework has been a guiding resource in this direction.
Meaningful Connectivity: Rural Report
This report details the urban-rural connectivity gap in nine low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and what that means for their potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Advancing Meaningful Connectivity: Towards Active and Participatory Digital Societies
In this new report we describe how, while two in three people are now online according to the current definition of internet access, billions lack the meaningful connectivity they need to make the most of the internet.
Costs of Exclusion: West Africa Report
The Costs of Exclusion West Africa regional report brings together interviews, focus groups, and a mobile survey in Nigeria to understand more about how the digital gender gap affects the region.
Filling the Gap Between Energy & Internet Access
Read the Report Here Around the world, efforts to connect the unconnected continue despite the myriad challenges that exist from the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic to political instability. Often these efforts focus on expanding telecommunications infrastructure; working to improve the personal…
Reflections of a Digital Divide
Read the Report Here Representations of gender, diversity, and device use in mobile network marketing. Reflections of a Digital Divide summarizes an investigation into gender and diversity representations on the front pages of mobile network operator websites around the world,…
The Costs of Exclusion
This report estimates the economic impact of women’s digital exclusion and underlines the economic opportunity governments have to include women in a fully inclusive digital economy.
Device Pricing 2021
Following our publication of From Luxury to Lifeline in 2020, this is A4AI’s second data collection on device prices and the first with global coverage. It’s the world’s largest open dataset on mobile device prices, with indications of the cheapest new smartphone and feature phone from a major mobile network operator in 187 countries.
Sustainable Access Report
his report analyses how governments embed climate issues into their broadband policies, looks at the consequences of inaction, and suggests policy recommendations towards a greener internet.
Affordability of ICT services 2020
Measuring five price baskets for ICT services across 207 countries, this data and analysis provides a global and regional view of the cost to use the internet and the progress needed to make internet services more affordable so that everyone can afford to connect.
From luxury to lifeline: Reducing the cost of mobile devices to reach universal internet access
This report surveys the cost of devices in 70 countries with a combined population of over five billion people. In addition to price, we look at how affordable devices are by calculating their price relative to the average income of a country.