Connecting and Enabling the Next Billion (CENB)

IGF 2018 - Policy Options for Connecting and Enabling the Next Billions (CENB): Phase IV - Draft Output (pre-IGF)

INTRODUCTION and INSTRUCTIONS

Policy Options for Connecting and Enabling the Next Billions (CENB) IV has functioned in a bottom-up, multi-stakeholder, and community-driven manner to gather stories, experiences, and lessons for producing this pre-IGF Output Document draft. Drawing on the same process, CENB IV invites all interested to comment and contribute in its draft outputs.

General comments as well as comments on specific parts of the report are welcome. In the later case, please  indicate clearly what section, page or paragraph of the text your comment relates to.

Comments can be submitted by clicking on 'Add new comment' below and will be shown in the column on the right. 

Received public feedback will be taken into account in the final version of the CENB IV output, which will be published shortly after the IGF meeting.

Thank you for your valuable comments!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Executive Summary  
    • Table of Contents 
    • Acknowledgements    
    • Interpretation Notes    
    • Abbreviations    
  • Introduction    
    • IGF Inter-sessional Work    
    • Policy Options for Connecting and Enabling the Next Billions    
    • Objectives for Phase IV    
    • Methodology    
    • Structure of this Report    
  • Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals   
    • SDG 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy   
      • Relevance    
      • Case Studies   
        • Case 1: Mawingu Networks, Kenya   
        • Case 2: SunCulture, Kenya    
        • Case 3: M-Kopa, Kenya    
        • Case 4: MeshPower, Rwanda   
        • Case 5: ME Solshare, Bangladesh   
        • Case 6: Agsol, Kenya    
        • Case 7: Sigora, Haiti    
        • Case 8: Solaris Offgrid, Tanzania, Uganda    
      • Common Themes   
    • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth   
      • Relevance    
      • Case Studies    
        • Case 1: Community Network in Tusheti, Georgia    
        • Case 2: Community Partnerships through Libraries, Romania    
        • Case 3: Providing Access to Legal Information, IFLA and EIFL    
        • Case 4: IFA Krishi, Nepal    
        • Case 5: CEDRO, Peru    
        • Case 6: Fairtrade, Papua New Guinea   
        • Case 7: YISHDA, Nigeria   
        • Case 8: Informal Business Sector Institute, Kenya   
        • Case 9:  Mucho Mangoes, Kenya    
        • Case 10: EIFL Projects, South Africa, Bulgaria, Croatia, Lithuania    
      • Common Themes    
    • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure    
      • Relevance    
      • Case Studies  
        • Case 1: Lavazza Project, Colombia   
        • Case 2: BOSCO, Uganda   
        • Case 3: Colnodo, Colombia   
        • Case 4: Community Network in Zapotec, Mexico   
        • Case 6: Internet Village Motoman Project, Cambodia   
        • Case 7: Zero Connect by Wireless for Communities, India   
        • Case 8: Brightwave Networks, South Africa   
        • Case 9: IREX Community Technology Hubs, Myanmar   
        • Case 10: Red Chaski and Atalaya Sur, Argentina   
      • Common Themes   
    • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals   
      • Relevance   
      • Case Studies   
        • Case 1: World Economic Forum Internet for All   
        • Case 2: IEEE Internet Inclusion Initiative   
        • Case 3: EQUALS   
        • Case 4: Telecom Infra Project   
        • Case 5: Microsoft Airband Initiative   
        • Case 6: CITEL   
        • Case 7: EIFL and Beyond Access, Kenya and Bangladesh   
      • Common Themes   
  • Conclusion: Weaving Common Threads to Advance the SDGs   
  • Appendices   
    • A: Discussion Paper submitted to the MAG   
    • B: Call for Public Inputs   
    • C: List of Contributions   

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