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CONNECT PEOPLE. EXPAND POSSIBILITY

Digital access
for everyone.

We are solving the challenge of access, and focusing now on local knowledge portals to empower the dreams of every single human.
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CHOOSE YOUR PATH

Three ways to expand digital opportunity.

School Connectivity

We invest in the future by connecting thousands of students in rural communities to the internet.

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Digital Public Good

We provide open source software, open data, open standards and open content that help attain the SDGs, connect every human and the future.

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Freemium Access to Information

We provide Freemium Wifi Hotspots for schools and the community in unconnected regions.

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ABOUT OUR FOUNDATION

The Basic Internet Foundation

The Basic Internet Foundation is on the mission to connect the future. We believe that the unconnected need to be empowered with information on the internet to shape their future.

We implement projects around the world in the fields of access to internet, education, health care, and women entrepreneurship.

OUR PRIORITIES

Short time to Value

The Basic Internet Foundation believes the unconnected need to be empowered with information to shape their own future — across access, education, health care, and women’s entrepreneurship.

01. Connect as many users as soon as possible

02. Keep access affordable — from 20 USD a month

03. Scale up: InfoSpot → mobile broadband → community networks

20 USD

a month is what it costs a community to move from an InfoSpot to full mobile broadband access — the top of our scale-up path.

OUR GOALS

Free access to information for every human

To get there, three things have to happen, in order:
01

Establish InfoSpots

Build internet access points in every community and school that doesn’t have one.

02

Define what’s essential

Decide what information must be available to everyone, including Digital Public Goods.

03

Open it up for free

Add free access to that information and those Digital Public Goods for every human..

Why it matters

Why you should care

Unconnected areas

The lack of digital inclusion has real effects for everyone — even in the well-connected West.
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Women in rural areas

Access to information is crucial for participation, education, and health care. Over 800 million people worldwide don’t have it.
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Digital divide in the Global South

Lack of connection will shape the future of the world unevenly. We need to act now.
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LIVE FROM THE FIELD

%

Of people living without internet live in African countries

Updated frequently from our partner sites, where local teams report access, training, and community outcomes. We publish the progress and the gaps so digital inclusion stays accountable.

SEE OTHER STATS

By the numbers

The scale of the gap

To get there, three things have to happen, in order:

Billion people don't have access to basic information

Billion People have never used the Internet

%

Of them are women

%

Of them live In African Countries

How access works

Freemium Model for Access

Free access to information on the internet, and premium access to broadband services, the “freemium” model for access. Free access to information is the major condition for digital inclusion, thus, development of digital society and accomplishing the SDGs.

Internet Lite is proven technology and provides free access to text, pictures and local content, e.g. education or health videos on a local server. The business model supports the concept of a Social Solidarity Economy.

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Partners & Supports

Collaborators

Our unique partnership model in empowering communities is fostered by the worldwide communities:

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