Driving GDP growth, attracting foreign investment, developing territory attractiveness, enabling a thriving community, these are the key social and economic development outcomes and benefits public stakeholders in high-growth economies identify as broadband enabled.
Eight applications were the key focus of the last World Summit on Information Society (WSIS II Tunis) action plan: e-business, e-science, e-agriculture, e-employment, e-health, e-education, e-government, e-environment.
Yet barriers to broadband mass adoption such as affordability and accessibility still prevail. Hence there’s a strong call for increased public policy involvement, to complement the primary private market role, in devising adequate strategies and policies to address community needs.
Public initiatives and policies for broadband penetration comprises four pillars:
1. Legal and regulatory policies to encourage broadband uptake, leverage public demand aggregation and foster innovation
2. Adequate and relevant local content and applications
3. Broadband user awareness and literacy
4. Services affordability and accessibility
A long standing partner to high-growth economies, Alcatel-Lucent can leverage its experience from operating in 130 countries around the world to share best practises in public policies toward broadband for all.
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