HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLIANCE FOR AFFORDABLE INTERNET!!! HURRAY!!!
Jan 21, 2015
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Women Inspiration Development Center, Ile-Ife, Nigeria is proud to be a member of the Alliance for Affordable
Internet (A4AI - www.a4ai.org), which celebrates its first birthday today. A4AI is already working
with four countries, undertaking high-impact research and advocacy and has more than doubled membership in its first
year. (Infographic: http://bit.ly/1vvXlwY) Why have we joined? Right now, just one in
three people in the developing world are online - with cost being the key barrier. In developed nations, broadband Internet costs 1-2% of monthly per capita income — less than a daily coffee. In less developed countries, however, this figure skyrockets to over 30% for a fixed line and to between 11%
and 25% for a basic mobile broadband package (depending on options chosen).
A4AI's goal? Meeting the UN's target of broadband prices at less than 5% of monthly incomes to allow millions more to access the life changing potential of the Internet.
The Alliance and its members believe that policy and regulator change can drive prices down fast, and so all members have endorsed a set of policy and regulatory best practices designed to create the conditions for open, competitive and innovative broadband markets.
Since its launch a year ago, the Alliance has signed deals with four countries, and is working on the ground to build local coalitions that can conceive and deliver solutions tailored to local realities.
In march last year four members of WorldPulse community based in Nigeria were invited to join the Alliance For Affordable Internet Coalition in Nigeria to put our voice and the voices of millions of Nigerian women and girls in the coalition on the kind of Web We Want and access to internet for Nigerian women. It has been a wonderful time working with A4AI and the kind of Positive impact that have been achieved in making internet benefits known, accessible and affordable to Nigerian women had been incredible.
To find out more about the Alliance's work, check out this infographic, visit the Alliance's website or follow them on
Twitter.
