Sharing infrastructure to boost rural access
Tanzania is undergoing strategic policy reform to encourage competition and innovation and to guide infrastructure sharing in order to expand connectivity to rural areas.
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Measuring quality of service
Sri Lanka’s proactive regulatory approach to defining and monitoring the quality of services provided by telecom operators helps protect consumers, drive down costs, and maintain healthy competition in the telecommunications market.
Leveraging competition to lower prices
Despite a well-developed telecommunications infrastructure, cost barriers have prevented people in South Africa from accessing the mobile web. The government recently took decisive action to address this by requiring the dominant mobile network operators to reduce their data rates.
Using new sources to measure access
A lack of gender-disaggregated data is a challenge for closing the digital gender gap, but innovative uses of online advertising data provide an opportunity to fill in gaps and set baselines for progress.
Laying the foundations for connectivity
Côte d’Ivoire’s national backbone network lays the groundwork infrastructure needed to power the digital economy and bridge the nation’s rural-urban digital divide.
Supporting innovation and sharing for rural access
Internet para Todos integrates open access principles and innovative technologies to deliver internet access to more than 6.8 million people living in rural areas of Peru.
Supporting digital skills for women
The Mujeres Conectadas project equips women with mobile technology tools and digital literacy and entrepreneurial skills.
Lowering prices for marginalised users
In 2018, the Ecuadorian government introduced social tariffs, which offer mobile voice and data packages at a reduced price to people earning the lowest incomes.
Educating and empowering consumers
The Mexican regulatory authority has developed informational resources and more to educate and empower consumers in the exercise of their rights.
Supporting DIY networking from the regulator
Brazil empowers communities in underserved areas by facilitating community networks and providing guidance on network deployment. This initiative helps bring last-mile infrastructure into previously unconnected areas.
Measuring broadband progress with an iterative process
Costa Rica’s broadband plan and its subsequent monitoring and evaluation methodology has set up the nation to achieve its digital connectivity goals, and also offers a framework for the country to regularly update its strategy.
Setting goals with national broadband plans
Turkey’s National Broadband Strategy and Action Plan helps increase the rollout of broadband in the country.