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Bangladesh's a2i programme has established 5,000+ community Digital Centres at union level bringing 150+ e-services to rural citizens; 76.8 million people served, …
Europe's largest nonprofit IT company refurbishes corporate hardware and resells it — including at reduced prices to schools and nonprofits — while …
Since 2019, New Zealand's NZD 24 million Marae Digital Connectivity Programme has connected 676 of 877 eligible marae to free broadband, Wi-Fi …
Founded by a formerly homeless welder, ShelterTech has installed free WiFi in 24 San Francisco shelters, SROs and supportive-housing sites and built …
Since 2014, the FSM government with the World Bank and ADB laid the Chuuk-Pohnpei and East Micronesia submarine cables plus rural last-mile …
A $25M ADB-financed submarine fibre-optic cable, commissioned in 2017, replaced Palau's costly satellite links, multiplying capacity more than tenfold and enabling nationwide …
World Bank/IFC-backed reform ended Comoros' telecom monopoly, introduced a competing operator and 4G, and subsidised broadband for schools — though national internet …
Since 2015, Uruguay's Plan Ibirapitá has given free senior-friendly tablets and digital-skills workshops to low-income pensioners nationwide. By 2019 nearly 193,000 tablets …
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 …
Coracle supplies offline, secure in-cell laptops with preloaded courses, reading material and accessibility tools to about 96 prisons in England and Wales. …
A World Bank/DFAT-backed reform opened Solomon Islands' mobile market to competition, cutting call prices ~60% and lifting telecom access from about 11% …
A US$30M IDA credit plus EIB co-financing built roughly 1,700km of national fiber backbone in Mauritania between 2013 and 2022, lifting broadband …
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