Country Kenya

Good Practices

Financing greater access to smartphones

Kenya has developed one of the fastest growing smartphone adoption rates in sub-Saharan Africa by addressing affordability challenges through the implementation of financing schemes designed to accelerate mobile adoption for low income consumers.

Carmen Ferri
October 26, 2021

Good Practices

Treating mobile phones as essential for all

The Kenyan telecommunications sector dramatically changed over the first decade of the new millennium. In 2000, only three of every 100 people in Kenya used the internet. From that year onwards, the telecommunications industry was liberalized, initiating a steady decline…

Carmen Ferri
September 18, 2019