Digital Divide

Pacific broadband funding must reach underdeveloped areas instead of jeopardising competition

Development Agenda - Digital Divide

Tuesday, 27 July 2010 11:32

A new Federal Communications Commission report on broadband deployment has called attention to the need for federal regulators to funnel broadband stimulus funding to areas of greatest need, rather than building duplicate networks in market areas which are already competitive...

Romania hosts pioneering CEE Digital Divide think-tank

Development Agenda - Digital Divide

Tuesday, 01 June 2010 00:00

Bucharest recently hosted the first regional think-tank on the Digital Dividend in Central and Eastern Europe. Under the organisation of ANCOM, it identified the main challenges of the digital switchover, notably the allocation and usage of the freed band as well as facilitating regional coordination...

Public-Private-Peoples Partnerships are aim of COMARCI initiative

Development Agenda - Digital Divide

Thursday, 25 March 2010 01:00

The CTO’s Rural Connectivity Workshop launched in Sierra Leone is intended to focus on Public-Private-Peoples Partnerships, thereby promoting rural access and leveraging ICTs for broader development in Africa...

Brazil’s Digital Divide - narrowing but still vast

Development Agenda - Digital Divide

Wednesday, 03 February 2010 12:35

Brazil has long been a high performer in the world of emerging telecoms markets - in overall economic terms, she is a member of the CIRB group. And yet there are still challenges she needs to meet to become a mature telecoms power. Michael Schwartz analyses...

Croatia connects 1,300 schools with Cisco technology

Development Agenda - Digital Divide

Monday, 04 January 2010 10:39

The Croatian Academic and Research Network has now connected 1,300 schools with the use of Cisco Technology. Its E-Islands project is addressing the Digital Divide between Mainland Croatia and its archipelago...

Web Foundation visits Kenya, sees poorest areas

Development Agenda - Digital Divide

Monday, 30 November 2009 11:54

Stephane Boyera, Programme Manager to the World Wide Web Foundation, accompanied Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Web Foundation Director Rosemary Leith on their visit to Kenya and Uganda. The journey followed on from their presentation to the 2009 Internet Governance Forum in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Stephane Boyera’s account is summarised here...

Solomon Telekom uses SES World Skies to bridge local Internet Divide

Development Agenda - Digital Divide

Friday, 20 November 2009 13:07

The Internet Divide across the Solomon Islands has been bridged as Solomon Telekom enlists NSS-9 satellite services from SES World Skies to expand broadband delivery to remote communities...

4.6 billion mobile subscriptions by the end of 2009 but digital divide continues – ITU

Development Agenda - Digital Divide

Wednesday, 14 October 2009 09:38

According to a new report from the ITU, The World in 2009: ICT facts and figures, mobile technology is acting as the driving force behind rapid international ICT growth. Based on current trends, ITU expects global mobile subscriptions to reach 4.6 billion by the end of the year, while mobile broadband subscriptions will top 600 million in 2009...