3 Billion People have No Internet Access: Why Teaching Programs Work Better than Subsidies - EPoS Economic Research Center Reports
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Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Telecommunications, Networks, Internet, Technology, University, Consumer, Education, Other Consumer, UNESCO, Digital divide, United Nations, International Telecommunication Union, Policy, Diffusion, Research, Literacy, Developed country, Internet access, Sustainable Development Goals, Digital, TEXT, Renewable energy
The United Nations aims to provide every person with access to the internet by 2030 in line with Sustainable Development Goals.
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- The United Nations aims to provide every person with access to the internet by 2030 in line with Sustainable Development Goals.
- New EPoS research on how to bridge the digital divide in Colombia shows that internet literacy plans work best in poor neighborhoods – doubling internet access.
- This research result is published by the EPoS Economic Research Center of the Universities of Bonn and Mannheim in the discussion paper “Internet (Power) to the People: How to Bridge the Digital Divide”.
- “Our results show that non-price policy tools aimed at internet diffusion are more vital than pricing subsidies for the poorest, less-internet savvy consumers,” says author Michelle Sovinsky of the EPoS Economic Research Center.