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 …
Costa Rica · San José · See the Costa Rica profile
Le fonds de télécommunications du Costa Rica a connecté 287 242 ménages pauvres avec un accès internet (5 Mbps) et des ordinateurs subventionnés (2016–2024). Évaluation externe : réduction de 22 pp du fossé numérique ; lauréat du prix ITU Success Stories 2016.
FONATEL Hogares Conectados du Costa Rica a connecté des ménages en situation de pauvreté à Internet et à des ordinateurs portables subventionnés, via le fonds national des télécommunications (2016–2024).
Il a connecté 287 242 ménages pauvres à un Internet subventionné de 5 Mbps et à des ordinateurs portables ; une évaluation externe a constaté une baisse de 22 points de pourcentage de la fracture numérique chez les ménages pauvres, et il a remporté le prix ITU Success Stories 2016.
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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 …
Brazil
Brazil's Ministry of Communications distributes free 20 GB/month e-SIM chips to low-income students (CadÚnico). By end-2024, 159,449 students across 944 …
Zimbabwe
POTRAZ has commissioned 182 Community Information Centres and upgraded 98 to Digital Centres with Starlink broadband, while distributing 25,000+ computers …
Kenya
Safaricom's M-Pesa turned basic phones into bank accounts across Kenya. A landmark Science study found it lifted 194,000 households out …
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