As the 2024 Internet Governance Forum (IGF) concludes, we, the undersigned organisations and individuals from civil society, the private sector, and the technical community, call on all governments, institutions, and organisations to affirm the vision of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) of a people-centred and development-oriented inclusive information society.

Read the full statement here: https://gdip.ngo/4hl9S2X

Globally, 2.6 billion people do not have access to the internet. Half of them are women.

In some parts of the world, the gender digital divide has been shrinking, but not in the global majority.

Support our work and learn more about how you can help: https://gdip.ngo/43ISMEA

NEW: We collected prepaid tariff data from the major mobile network operators across eight global majority countries to understand pricing trends and strategies. Here’s what we found out:

📵 Not all prepaid data packets are the same
📶 Consumers pay more for smaller packets and slower data consumption over time
🌐 The spread of prepaid offers demonstrates a cost barrier set against low-income users

Read the rest of the findings and explore the data here: https://gdip.ngo/4h2NmeN

Two months on, we’ve had time to reflect on insights shared during the Summit of the Future and Women in the Digital Economy Fund side event and assess whether “the Global Digital Compact, with all its imperfections,” can indeed propel progress towards better global digital governance and digital inclusion for all.

Here are WiDEF’s key takeaways on why we must apply a gender lens and targeted action in the implementation of the Global Digital Compact’s five objectives. https://gdip.ngo/4irLSfq

ICT Watch - Indonesia (Internet Sehat), Audiopedia Foundation, Kistpay (Private) Limited, and KIT- Digital Innovation HUB will help us advance universal, meaningful access to secure digital inclusion by 2030. https://gdip.ngo/3Daan0u

Interested in joining GDIP? We are always looking for partners to make universal access and meaningful connectivity a reality for the global majority. Please reach out to our partnership team to learn more. https://gdip.ngo/join

Your support can help unlock the benefits of the internet for hundreds of millions of people in the global majority.

This #GivingTuesday, donate and join us in advancing universal, meaningful access to secure digital inclusion by 2030. https://gdip.ngo/43ISMEA

While an estimated 68% of the global population is now online, and all indicators tracked in the report show improvement, stubborn digital divides persist, and about one-third of the world's people remain offline.

More on International Telecommunication Union Facts and Figures 2024: https://gdip.ngo/3ZvEdFf