The World Economic Forum is a membership organization that provides a platform for the world’s 1,000 leading companies to shape a better future. The Forum engages businesses in projects and initiatives – online and offline – to address industry, regional and systemic issues.
The forum's Internet for All will create tens of millions of new internet users across initially 3 country programs (Northern Corridor in Africa, Argentina, India) within three years through the development of new and innovative collaboration models. Further, Internet for All will deliver a global digital and social platform where leaders from government, donors, the private sector, and civil society can collaborate to scale and replicate internet inclusion activities. Internet for All will also document the processes and methodologies developed to allow countries and regions to launch Internet for All-type projects on their own.
Objectives
By the end of 2019, at least 60 million new internet users created through Internet for All’s unique collaborative approach, which will have become a proven methodology that other organizations can adopt to accelerate internet inclusion globally.
The Forum published this paper in April 2016: Internet for All: A Framework for Accelerating Internet Access and Adoption
Me: disappointed that the paper mentions people with disabilities only once, and the web site not at all. Women are mentioned more than 30 times in the paper.