World Bank/ADB-financed submarine and domestic fibre links are cutting Kiribati's reliance on costly satellite bandwidth. Vodafone Kiribati reports 87% population coverage, but …
Tarawa, Kiribati
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 24%92/100
Coracle supplies offline, secure in-cell laptops with preloaded courses, reading material and accessibility tools to about 96 prisons in England and Wales. …
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Good practice
Evidence: Quasi-experimental
Top 24%92/100
Esoko delivers SMS/voice crop-price, weather and agronomic advice to smallholder farmers across Africa; independent research found Ghanaian users earned about 10% more …
Accra, Ghana
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 24%92/100
A private-sector-funded Estonian NGO trained over 100,000 adults (about 10% of the adult population) in basic computer and internet skills in 2002-2004, …
Tallinn, Estonia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 24%92/100
A World Bank/DFAT-backed reform opened Solomon Islands' mobile market to competition, cutting call prices ~60% and lifting telecom access from about 11% …
Since 2008, Belo Horizonte's municipal IT company Prodabel has run a computer-reconditioning centre that trains low-income youth to refurbish donated PCs, distributing …
Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 24%92/100
Since 2013, French nonprofit Emmaüs Connect has combined refurbished devices, subsidised connectivity and digital-skills coaching through a nationwide 'Connexions Solidaires' network, reaching …
El Salvador launched Chivo, a digital wallet with a $30 sign-up bonus, as a financial-inclusion tool for its majority-unbanked population when Bitcoin …
San Salvador, El Salvador
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 24%92/100
A UNESCO-Procter & Gamble literacy programme for 15-55 year-old girls and women across seven Senegalese regions, which added digital kits and TV/radio …
Dakar, Senegal
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 24%92/100
A non-profit running intensive coding and IT bootcamps for refugees, IDPs and host-community youth in Erbil, Iraq, pairing technical training with local …
Erbil, Iraq
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 24%92/100
A BMZ/GIZ partnership with Orange Cameroun trains disadvantaged youth in coding, hardware and entrepreneurship, extending digital skills into Cameroon's under-connected regions; over …
The US Veterans Health Administration's Digital Divide Consult (2020) standardises referrals for free loaned tablets and data. A 2024 cohort study found …
Washington, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 24%92/100
Hong Kong's 'Smart Silver' programme has reached 150,000+ elderly residents since 2014 via outreach visits, mobile stations and ICT training; the 2025-26 …
Taiwan's Ministry of Education has built 300 Digital Opportunity Centers in 168 remote/indigenous villages since 2005 (NT$6.8bn/US$212m in phase one), across five …
Taipei, Taiwan
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 24%92/100
Ask Izzy is a free, anonymous mobile web app from Melbourne-based not-for-profit Infoxchange that helps people experiencing or at risk of homelessness …
Melbourne, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 24%92/100
World Bank-financed Digital CASA laid 3,000+ km of fibre-optic cable, connecting nearly 4,000 schools, clinics and offices across Kyrgyzstan's seven regions and …
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 24%92/100
LISTA, Fundación Capital's tablet financial-education app for Colombia's cash-transfer recipients, joined national policy in 2015. A randomised trial of 3,000 women found …
Azerbaijan's ASAN Xidmet one-stop-shop centres, launched in 2012 and backed by mobile 'ASAN' buses reaching rural areas, digitised dozens of services and …
Baku, Azerbaijan
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 24%92/100
Thailand laid fibre broadband to 24,700 rural villages, paired with cascade digital-literacy training reaching 1.2 million people by 2018 and 13.6 million …