Despite major advances in connectivity and innovation across Africa, millions remain digitally excluded — from rural communities and informal workers to women, youth, and persons with disabilities.

Bridging the Digital Divide: A Playbook for Inclusive Growth is a practical, policy-ready guide designed to help governments, development agencies, NGOs, and ecosystem builders design and implement strategies that ensure everyone benefits from the digital economy.

This playbook doesn’t just identify the challenges — it equips you with tools, models, and interventions to close digital gaps through infrastructure, skills, access, affordability, and inclusive policy.

What’s Inside:

• The Five Dimensions of Digital Inclusion: Access, skills, affordability, relevance, and safety

• Inclusive Infrastructure Planning: Targeting underserved areas with USFs, PPPs, and open access models

• Gender & Youth Inclusion Strategies: Targeted solutions that address systemic barriers

• Policy & Regulatory Levers: How to design incentives, protections, and mandates for inclusion

• Affordability Frameworks: Devices, data pricing, subsidies, and demand stimulation

• Community Engagement & Digital Literacy Models

• Sample Programs & Case Studies: Rural Wi-Fi, community networks, device financing schemes, women-led skills programs

Who It’s For:

• Policymakers in ICT, Education, and Social Inclusion

• National broadband and universal service agencies

• NGOs and CSOs working on digital equity

• Development partners and donor program teams

• Startup hubs and private-sector partners in inclusive tech

Format:

• PDF Guide (50+ pages)

• Includes editable checklists, policy templates, and program design tools

• Field-tested, easily adapted to national and local contexts

African Priorities. Actionable Solutions.

Built on insights from AU Digital Transformation Strategy, Smart Africa, UN Digital Inclusion frameworks, and real-world programs from Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and Rwanda.

Inclusion isn’t a side project — it’s the foundation of sustainable growth.

→ Download Bridging the Digital Divide: A Playbook for Inclusive Growth now on SumoConnect Africa.