<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Check out this <a href="http://1e8q3q16vyc81g8l3h3md6q5f5e.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/A4AI-2017-Africa-Affordability-Report_Online.pdf" class="">Africa regional report</a>, off the Alliance for Affordable Internet’s <a href="http://a4ai.org/affordability-report/report/2017/" class="">2017 Affordability Report</a>. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some highlights: </div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class=""> Only 5 out of 27 African countries surveyed have “affordable” internet (defined as 1GB of mobile prepaid data for 2% or less of average monthly income). </li><ul class=""><li class="">Kenya is NOT among the top 5; Ghana, Nigeria and ECOWAS have endorsed this redefined Internet Affordability target (expected to incorporate in their policies). </li></ul><li class="">The 5 countries are Mauritius, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Sudan.</li><li class="">The gender gap in Internet use is real. Refer to <a href="http://webfoundation.org/about/research/womens-rights-online-2015/" class="">http://webfoundation.org/about/research/womens-rights-online-2015/</a>, where, e.g., where Nairobi had one of the widest gender gaps in Internet use of the 10 cities assessed. </li><li class="">Policy recommendations here: <a href="http://a4ai.org/affordability-report/report/2015/#policy_recommendations" class="">http://a4ai.org/affordability-report/report/2015/#policy_recommendations</a></li></ul></div><br class=""><div class="">
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