The Hon. Minister Timothy Masiu @TimMasiuMP, Minister for ICT of Papua New Guinea, officially launches the Pacific Digital Gender Scorecards Regional Synthesis report with the Pacific leads and coordinators from Samoa, Tonga, and Papua New Guinea. 🇼🇸🇹🇴🇵🇬 https://t.co/OQwVxld1R0

Any solution to connect rural areas must be affordable, inclusive and have sustainable delivery, making it important to answer fundamental questions on how to get last mile connectivity to rural and remote areas.

As the world rebuilds from the Covid-19 crisis, we must pursue actions that ensure everyone who has been excluded or struggles to afford access can connect and take full advantage of what the internet has to offer.

📰 The Nigerian Communications Commission @NgComCommission has agreed to consider all the submissions made by A4AI in their inquiry on the proposed Consumer Code of Practice Regulations. @DotunRoy @AfroDiva https://t.co/p90qoU6aPa

Today, around a third of the global population still remains offline — including many living in rural areas in low and middle-income countries. We must accelerate progress on closing the rural-urban digital divide. https://t.co/ducnudrB8q

"We are now living with the consequences of tech built primarily by men. To design a brighter & better digital future, we must put women & gender at its heart" @UN Tech Envoy @gioasempre at @UNWomen #UNGA high-level event on building more inclusive & equal digital societies.

“The work of the Pacific Internet Governance Forum (IGF) is under the oversight of PICISOC. Vice President Andrew Molivurae expressed sincere gratitude towards the PNG Government for facilitating the combined efforts with APrIGF Chair Anju Mangal.”

Pacific Island governments must urgently implement gender-responsive ICT policies with clear steps to reduce the digital gender gap and move towards a gender-inclusive future. More in our new report: https://t.co/OQwVxlcu1s https://t.co/OQwVxlcu1s

Además, cerrar la brecha de género digital representaría un enorme beneficio para el desarrollo económico mundial: de acuerdo con un estudio realizado por @A4A_Internet, en los últimos 10 años se han perdido mil millones de dólares al excluir a las mujeres del mundo digital.

The @A4A_Internet report https://t.co/Bh8JOrA6mY maps out Broadband Plans and Policies of 70 countries on #SustainableAccess @TeddyWoodhouse did a great job connecting the relationship between energy and internet connectivity; and this is my interest. cc @SoniaA4AI #IGF2021

“We cannot allow for inequalities and exclusion to persist. If we shortchange women, girls, and the unconnected, either because they are poor, rural or remote, we are short-changing the world.”

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Policymakers 'MUST' set a more ambitious, yet impactful, target for improving access and use for all through their policy goals.

Beyond just access, libraries can help offer meaningful connectivity – where internet access can advance personal, professional, or educational development. Here’s how.

100%. Libraries play an important role in giving everyone access to the internet.

📰 The Nigerian Communications Commission @NgComCommission has agreed to consider all the submissions made by A4AI in their inquiry on the proposed Consumer Code of Practice Regulations. @DotunRoy @AfroDiva https://t.co/p90qoU6aPa

❓How can policymakers support meaningful broadband connectivity to reach the unconnected? 📢 @UNAPCICT and @A4A_Internet will organize the #CapacityBuilding Webinar on Cross-Sectoral Infrastructure Sharing for Broadband Connectivity🌐 📅 29 - 30 September

If Liberia is to meet the objectives to secure universal, affordable mobile broadband access by 2024, the government will have to be more strategic, collaborative, and open to providing healthy market competition.

🆕️ Importante fio da @Foditsch sobre conectividade e acesso à internet no Brasil 👇

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✍️ @SoniaA4AI and @Ellasarpong were expert contributors to this new @UNBBCom report aiming to enhance civil servants’ competencies to implement digital and AI transformation initiatives in the government. Read it here: