Uganda Rural Household Devices Project – Solar Tablets for Last-Mile Digital Inclusion
Uganda
Uganda's UCC/UCUSAF distributes solar-powered tablets with six months of mobile data to low-income rural households. By December 2023: 10,706 households …
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FONATEL Hogares Conectados – Subsidised Internet and Device Programme for Households in Poverty (Costa Rica)
Costa Rica · San José · See the Costa Rica profile
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 a 22 percentage-point fall in the digital gap among poor households; winner of the ITU Success Stories 2016 award.
287,242
Households connected (2016-2024)
-22 pp
Fall in digital gap among poor households
Details
- Maturity
- Established
- Promoter
- SUTEL / FONATEL (Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones / Fondo Nacional de Telecomunicaciones)
- Period
- 2016–2028
- Keywords
- government, telecommunications, social policy, universal service
Context
Costa Rica's FONATEL Hogares Conectados connected households in poverty with subsidised internet and laptops through the national telecom fund (2016–2024).
Results
It connected 287,242 households in poverty with subsidised 5 Mbps internet and laptops; an external evaluation found a 22 percentage-point fall in the digital gap among poor households, and it won the ITU Success Stories 2016 award.
Implementation
Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.
Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-06-21
- SUTEL / FONATEL (Superintendencia de Telecomunicaciones / Fondo Nacional de Telecomunicaciones) — accessed 2026-06-21
- SUTEL — Programa Hogares Conectados — accessed 2026-06-21
- SUTEL cumple totalidad del Programa Hogares Conectados — Tico Urbano — accessed 2026-06-21
- IMAS — 78,000 hogares logran conectividad — accessed 2026-06-21
- A4AI — Closing the digital divide with universal service leadership — accessed 2026-06-21
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