This post was written by Teddy Woodhouse, Senior Research Manager for Access and Affordability. Follow Teddy on Twitter @TeddyWoodhouse. Billions of people have never used the internet before. How do we connect them for the first time? In many parts…
This op-ed was written by Sonia Jorge, Executive Director of A4AI, and was originally published by Thomson Reuters Foundation. Without a smartphone, Darnella Frazier would not have captured the killing of George Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis. If not…
As internet access proves more critical than ever, Sonia Jorge, A4AI Executive Director, explains how our new meaningful connectivity target will help to raise the bar for internet access. The Covid-19 pandemic has galvanised the case for universal internet access…
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,…
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…
Billions of people around the world are kept offline by the cost to connect. Our 2019 Affordability Report — published today — finds that consolidated broadband markets are keeping prices high and putting life-changing internet access out of reach for…