The article discusses the issue of the digital divide in South Africa and Africa as a whole, focusing on how connectivity can effectively address this issue. It highlights the discrepancies in reaching all groups and the cost of data and internet access. The role of fibre in addressing the digital divide is also discussed.
Amid all the frenzied activity that the four-day long conference featured, one issue in particular cropped up again and again, both for the South Africa n context and the larger African continent – how connectivity can effectively address the digital divide ., highlighting the discrepancies when it comes to how connectivity can enable digital learning, but simply is not reaching all the groups it should.
Leaders on the continent are acutely aware of this issue too, with the cost of data and access to the internet bring brought up several times during aWe got the chance to talk to him, sitting down to discuss the role that fibre in particular can play in addressing the digital divide.Explaining what the remit of the WBBA is, Creaner notes that it was created following a serious of industry-specific discussions two years ago which highlighted a distinct lack of an organisation to help drive development and evolution within the fixed connectivity, fibre, and copper worl
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