Sonia Jorge, Executive Director of the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) and Head of Digital Inclusion at the Web Foundation, participated in last week’s launch of the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres’ Roadmap for Digital Cooperation. The Roadmap aims to…
We have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Internet Society (ISOC) to further our existing partnership to promote community networks that expand meaningful connectivity, and other areas of joint interest. ISOC is an A4AI member and shares…
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,…
This edition of The Web Untangled, a series from The Web Foundation dedicated to unpacking issues core to digital access and rights, looks at Meaningful Connectivity — a new target from A4AI that measures not only if someone has access…
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…