Bringing Meaningful Broadband
To 2 Billion Low-Income Asians
"Meaningful Broadband?"
That's Digital Divide Institute's model, developed and tested over 20 years in Asia for bringing the internet to low-income and remote users. Our model has three criteria:
Usable
Tied to the experience of low-income users with little formal education.
Affordable
Cost of devices and software should be less than 7% of family income.
Empowering
Technology must curb addiction, foster 24-7 learning and entrepreneurship.
The Five Domains of Innovation
To achieve these criteria, Digital Divide Institute works with stakeholders in six nations to activate innovations in:
What's New
In 2019 our challenge: to formulate the financial model for Meaningful Broadband in Indonesia; activate test market activity for Meaningful Broadband in China’s Sichuan province; activate a six-nation Asian coalition and host our Asian partners for Silicon Valley seminars at Stanford University.
Meaningful Broadband: Indonesia
In 2019, ten years after the activation of Meaningful Broadband – Indonesia, our new focus is all about financial innovation. In partnership with the National ICT
Meaningful Broadband: China
Meaningful Broadband: China has begun activation. Shenlong Han, an associate professor of Peking University, will oversee village test marketing of Meaningful Broadband in an impoverished
