Africa: Why Covid Makes Internet Access More Urgent Than Ever

opinion

Progress on making the internet accessible has been far too slow, with just over half the world connected today

When 193 countries met to agree on a set of global goals to tackle the world's biggest problems, they could scarcely have imagined how the world would look five years later: a global pandemic upending lives and livelihoods, breaking entire industries and threatening a widespread economic depression.

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