IGF 2022 PNMA Report

Below are the key areas being developed by the Policy Network in Meaningful Access (PNMA) in its 2022 report. Comments can be added below each section by clicking on ''View and Add Comments for Paragraph''.

Deadline to post comments is 11 November 2022.

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About meaningful access

The concept of meaningful access has emerged in response to the growing body of evidence that even when people have connectivity, they might not have been fully benefiting from the Internet. How one gets connected to the Internet is an equally important challenge to the experience that person will have once they are online. While access to infrastructure is critical, without this access being inclusive, useful, sustainable, affordable, and linked to human capacity development and  relevant content that can make it so, it will not achieve its full, positive potential. Many of the efforts on access, unfortunately, are only focusing on bringing connections to final users and treating them as consumers, without taking into consideration the potential of the Internet as a way to create, communicate and produce contents and services locally and in local languages - acknowledging users as citizens with their own online civic spaces.

Focus Area 1 - Connectivity

Derived from the 2022 call of inputs, the PNMA selected cases as good practices on implementing or pushing for better meaningful access. For each focus area, the practices were evaluated following standard assessments, derived from the chosen methodology for this year’s process.

The PNMA welcomes examples in the area of connectivity. Please provide your comment following the categories and guidelines below:

 

(name of the project)

• Location:
  • (country, city/region if available)
• Funding:
  • (funder, figure, for how long, n/a)
• Responsible institutions / partners / people:
• What is the problem(s)?
  • Set up the context
  • Describe the problem
• Specifics:
  • Rural / Urban setting?
  • Is there a gender focus?
  • What were the services provided, subsidies used?
  • Etc (anything particular worth sharing)
• Which were the actions taken to address the problem(s)?
• Results / Impact / Lessons learned (what worked / remaining challenges)
  • Results:
  • Impact:
  • Lessons learned:

Focus Area 2 - Digital inclusion

Derived from the 2022 call of inputs, the PNMA selected cases as good practices on implementing or pushing for better meaningful access. For each focus area, the practices were evaluated following standard assessments, derived from the chosen methodology for this year’s process.

The PNMA welcomes examples in the area of digital inclusion. Please provide your comment following the categories and guidelines below:



(name of the project)

• Location:
  • (country, city/region if available)
• Funding:
  • (funder, figure, for how long, n/a)
• Responsible institutions / partners / people:
• What is the problem(s)?
  • Set up the context
  • Describe the problem
• Specifics:
  • Rural / Urban setting?
  • Is there a gender focus?
  • What were the services provided, subsidies used?
  • Etc (anything particular worth sharing)
• Which were the actions taken to address the problem(s)?
• Results / Impact / Lessons learned (what worked / remaining challenges)
  • Results:
  • Impact:
  • Lessons learned:

Focus Area 3 - Capacity development

The PNMA is looking for stories, case studies, local experiences, and implemented practices under the broad area of capacity development. The policy network is particularly interested in receiving cases in this area of study, either successful or challenging ones.

Please provide your comment following the categories and guidelines below:



(name of the project)

• Location:
  • (country, city/region if available)
• Funding:
  • (funder, figure, for how long, n/a)
• Responsible institutions / partners / people:
• What is the problem(s)?
  • Set up the context
  • Describe the problem
• Specifics:
  • Rural / Urban setting?
  • Is there a gender focus?
  • What were the services provided, subsidies used?
  • Etc (anything particular worth sharing)
• Which were the actions taken to address the problem(s)?
• Results / Impact / Lessons learned (what worked / remaining challenges)
  • Results:
  • Impact:
  • Lessons learned:

Issues for IGF consideration and action



This section of the report will gather considerations drawn from the cases' analysis, as well as replies from the community sent via the call of inputs. The PNMA invites you to answer these questions and contribute to the analysis:

• In your experience, what is missing? What policy and/or regulation needs to be in place to support expansion of access to rural/marginalised communities in the Global South?
• Please share general observations on the topic, provide feedback to our work, or suggest ways forward for the Policy Network on Meaningful Access.