D.Net's Infolady model trains rural Bangladeshi women as bicycle-riding info-entrepreneurs delivering health, agriculture and e-government services door-to-door; it reached roughly 300 villages …
Solar-powered 'Instant Classroom' kits with tablets and localised e-learning content run in 28 Instant Network Schools centres across DR Congo, incl. the …
Lusenda (Fizi Territory, South Kivu), Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 9%96/100
South Africa's first rural cooperative-owned ISP, Zenzeleni built a solar WiFi mesh network in Mankosi, Eastern Cape, selling access far below incumbent …
Mankosi, South Africa
Good practice
Evidence: Randomised controlled trial
Top 9%96/100
Since 2008, Digital Green has trained community mediators to produce and screen localised farming videos, reaching 2.3 million+ farmers across 10 countries …
Bengaluru, India
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 9%96/100
Nairobi's Signs Media Kenya broadcasts free Kenyan Sign Language content via Signs TV and, through its assistALL app, brought paid sign-language interpretation …
Nairobi, Kenya
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 9%96/100
Since 2010, The Last Mile has taught incarcerated Californians offline software engineering despite no prison internet. Now in 16 facilities across 7 …
San Quentin, United States of America
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 9%96/100
Ukraine's Digital Transformation Ministry, UNDP and the Library Association turned public libraries into free 'Digital Education Hubs'. The network grew from 3,000+ …
Kyiv, Ukraine
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 9%96/100
OLE Nepal deploys offline digital libraries (E-Pustakalaya) and interactive learning software (E-Paath) on local servers in remote Nepali schools without internet access, …
Kathmandu, Nepal
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 9%96/100
Solar-powered digital centres in indigenous Guatemalan villages deliver digital literacy and leadership training to Mayan women and youth; a 2025 Frontiers study …
Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 9%96/100
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, …
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 1%95/100
Born in Nairobi during Kenya's 2008 post-election violence, Ushahidi's open-source crowdsourcing platform has since been deployed 150,000+ times in 160+ countries, and …
Nairobi, Kenya
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 2%93/100
WFP's AI-assisted HungerMap Live platform, built with Google.org and covering 50+ countries, helped identify worsening hunger in Somalia's Buur Hakaba district before …
Women Squared (Donne al Quadrato) is a nonprofit project aimed at providing financial, legal, professional and personal knowledge, designed for and primarily …
Milano, Italy· National
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 23%92/100
UNICEF, Paraguay's Ministry of Education and Paraguay Educa adapted school textbooks into accessible digital formats — audio narration, sign-language video, simplified language …
Asunción, Paraguay
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 23%92/100
UK charity The Turing Trust refurbishes donated computers with offline e-libraries for Malawi's schools. In its Northern Region, IT-lab access rose from …
Mzuzu, Malawi
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 23%92/100
A six-month AT2030 study by the Global Disability Innovation Hub gave 193 Deaf/hard-of-hearing and blind/partially-sighted Kenyans smartphones and accessibility-feature training, delivered locally …
Kisumu, Kenya
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 23%92/100
Since 2016, First Nations Media Australia's inDigiMOB has trained Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as peer "Digital Mentors," reaching 14,000+ participants …
Alice Springs, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 23%92/100
Free, open-source Windows screen reader from Australian non-profit NV Access. WebAIM's independent 2024 survey of 1,539 users found NVDA the most commonly …
Brisbane, Australia
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 23%92/100
eKitabu, a Nairobi edtech nonprofit, builds born-accessible e-books for blind/low-vision learners and Kenyan Sign Language video storybooks for deaf learners with Kenya's …