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Costa Rica's national telecom fund connected 287,242 households in poverty with subsidised 5 Mbps internet and laptops (2016–2024). An external evaluation found …
Morocco's 2005–2017 programme equipped 87% of 11,000 schools with ICT, trained 260,000 staff and won the 2017 UNESCO ICT-in-Education Prize. Independent studies …
Telebras operates 15,000+ satellite Wi-Fi hotspots in 3,000+ municipalities, giving 9+ million Brazilians in rural, indigenous and quilombola communities their first broadband …
Malaysia's network of 1,099 community digital hubs (NADI, formerly PEDi) with 1.9 million members; free digital tuition to 42,000 students, entrepreneurship training …
Skinny Jump delivers heavily subsidised 4G broadband at NZD $5/35 GB — a quarter of commercial pricing — to low-income New Zealand …
BiblioRedes connects all 450+ public libraries in Chile with free internet and digital training, having served 1.86 million users, recorded 38 million …
WeFarm let farmers without internet ask and answer farming questions by free SMS/USSD, matching questions via NLP; it grew to over 1.8 …
A US$29m World Bank grant to reform Tuvalu's telecom sector, followed by a five-nation submarine cable activated in October 2025, took one …
ITU-led Smart Island programme brought VSAT/solar-powered connectivity and digital-skills training to six villages on Vanuatu's Malekula island, training over 1,000 residents in …
A Windhoek non-profit connected up to 500 Namibian schools to the internet via open-source Edubuntu labs, refurbished PCs and even solar power, …
The local projects financed by Choices Programme are defined by local consortia of partners (schools, NGOs, municipalities, etc.) and divided into five …
In 2013 the Martynas Mazvydas National Library of Lithuania (NLL) applied to the Global Libraries Program implemented by the Bill & Melinda …
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