Our aim is that all information related to digital inclusion and the free access to information is publicly available. Thus, we put together a variety of tools addressing the topics, including a Wiki, FAQ, and documentation on how to establish the information spot in your…
“Free access to Information” should be a human right in the digital age. Does sound right, does it? We know that our children are digital, we know that we have to have digital skills if we want to have decent work. So, why don’t we…
On 10/6/2019, the UN High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation launched its report “Age of Digital Interdependence”with recommendations where the Basic Internet Foundation, with its DigI project efforts around the word was an ideal epitome for Global Digital Inclusion and building Internet access around community needs….
With a very rapid development of Internet technologies, new digital divides on the Internet are emerging. The rapid pace of new forms of communication and new access points to the Internet, such as mobile, demand solutions beyond those exclusively concerned with Internet access and technological…
We selected Izazi, one of the villages in the Iringa district in Tanzania, as a pilot site for providing Internet Lite for All. Izazi is located at the Mtera dam, and it’s only about 11 km to the towers providing Mobile Broadband. Though, we had…
Across the developing world, financial institutions have leveraged digital technologies and innovative business models to expand access to digital financial services (DFS), such as digital transaction accounts and payment services, which serve as the gateway to financial inclusion. Providers are now diversifying their products offerings…
The internet is not a static set of tools or affordances for a specific set of user-defined purposes. Rather, it represents a rapidly evolving set of ways to configure social life. The situation is problematic with regards to the notion of a digital divide being…
Through it’s 7th EAC Health & Scientific Conference (EACHSC) took place on 27-29Mar2019 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Basic Internet Foundation was strongly participating with Bernard and Felix as part of the organising committee, Flora as participant, and Christine and Josef as presenters. Technology for…
The Basic Internet Foundation, together with it’s international DigI project team, brings free Internet access and envisages Digital Inclusion for everyone. This time, the destination was Tanzania connecting yet another unconnected villages. On the 4th of March 2019, the team headed towards the North of…
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development – the UN’s blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all – calls for a reduction in inequality between and within countries. Nevertheless, global inequality is increasing. So what can be done? Inequality is an “entrenched imbalance”…
