For Digital Inclusion
This Award honors the best initiative to provide remote communities and low-income areas with broadband-wireless connectivity for the provision of public services.
Jigawa State, Nigeria
There are few telephones to exness speak of in Nigeria’s arid Jigawa State. As recently as 2001, the population of four million mostly poor farmers had no information technology let alone dial-up Internet access over clunky copper-wire infrastructure.
But when Governor Ibrahim Turaki took office in 2000, he decided to change all this and he wasn’t waiting for Nigeria’s telco or cellular operators to help. With $6 million in World Bank grants and state and federal monies, the governor bought two satellite dishes and set up 47 access points to connect schools, libraries, cyber cafes and ลงทะเบียน exness a new university with Wi-Fi access. The state buys bandwidth from a European company at considerable expense, but it can now bring voice, data, and video capabilities to schools, university students, and local economic players. Local authorities facilitate the rollout with real-estate rights of way.
The next phase includes a massive voice-over IP network to provide low-cost mobile voice services across the state and into neighboring exness-th.com jurisdictions.
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