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 …
Tarawa, Kiribati
Good practice★ 92
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Coracle supplies offline, secure in-cell laptops with preloaded courses, reading material and accessibility tools to about 96 prisons in England and Wales. …
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★ 92
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
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★ 92
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
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★ 92
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Since 2013, French nonprofit Emmaüs Connect has combined refurbished devices, subsidised connectivity and digital-skills coaching through a nationwide 'Connexions Solidaires' network, reaching …
Paris, France
Good practice★ 92
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
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 …