The HOPin Academy and Basic Internet Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the 20th of November 2019. HOPin Academy focuses on technological entrepreneurship and innovation in the Northern Region of Ghana-Tamale. The Academy provides pragmatic and innovative approaches towards exploring the vast fields of…
The Siaya Community Library and Basic Internet Foundation signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the 11th of April 2020. The mandate of The Siaya Community Library is to provide access to information through availing books and information technology resources, serving students in primary and secondary…
Last week, our General Secretary Josef Noll and Digital Inclusion advisor Danica Radovanovic, participated and presented at the ITU in Geneva, Switzerland. From 11 to 13 February, 2020, the ITU organized meetings for the Digital Transformation Centers (DTC) project – Phase 1.
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…
