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Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned

The movement to close the Digital Divide passed through four distinct stages before ICT stakeholders finally understood that only broadband can close the Divide. Here are the nine truths about how to close the Divide.

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May 22 , 2013

Achieving “Political Will” : The factor that most keeps citizens from receiving the benefits of the internet is not what you’d imagine – not lack of investment capital, not corruption, not weak infrastructure. That stuff is fixable or can be circumvented. A deeper problem is that most governments are led by officials who lack political will to implement their own roadmaps for bringing broadband to the masses. Read More

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