A global digital gender divide is keeping hundreds of millions of women and girls from fully participating and contributing online. Research Manager for Gender and Digital Rights Chenai Chair shares insights from her research on digital gender inequality, including findings…
This post was written by Sonia Jorge, Executive Director of A4AI. It was originally published on the World Bank Blogs. The world is unfortunately missing one of the most pertinent targets of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) this…
This post was written by Carlos Iglesias, Web Foundation Senior Research Manager, and was originally published on webfoundation.org. Imagine how much greater this challenge would be if this pandemic struck 15 years ago, before we had access to fast broadband,…
Today, only 54% of the world has access to the internet. As the globe grapples with the Covid-19 pandemic, billions of people around the world are cut off from vital information on health and safety, online learning opportunities, and virtual…
The Center of Studies on the Development of the Information Society (Cetic.br), an Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) member, in partnership with the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br), recently published the Assessing internet development in Brazil study. The report is…
This post was written by Sonia Jorge, Executive Director of the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), Head of Digital Inclusion at the Web Foundation, and Dhanaraj Thakur, Research Director at the Web Foundation. At the end of 2018, as half…