Last year, the 193 member states of the UN agreed: The Internet is critical for global development and everyone, everywhere should have access. World leaders declared that we should strive for universal access, particularly in the world’s Least Developed Countries (LDCs), by 2020.
So, are we going to hit that target? The 2015-16 Affordability Report from the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), shows that on current trends, we won’t just miss the target, we’ll miss it by a mile. Without urgent reform, in 2020 we will see just 16% of people in the world’s poorest countries, and 53% of the world as a whole, connected.
