{"id":150668,"date":"2019-11-08T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T11:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ict-pulse.com\/?p=150668"},"modified":"2019-11-07T17:45:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T22:45:43","slug":"broadband-internet-affordability-key-findings-caribbean-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/2019\/11\/broadband-internet-affordability-key-findings-caribbean-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband Internet affordability: key findings and how the Caribbean measures up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI) published its latest Affordability Report. Some of the key findings are highlighted and are discussed from a Caribbean perspective.<\/em><\/p>\n

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In late October, the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI)<\/a> published the 2019 Affordability Report<\/a>, which aims to monitor the extent to which affordable, accessible, and universal Internet access is available worldwide, and particularly developing countries. The report also includes analysis and recommendations that countries can consider implementing in order to realise Universal Internet Access.<\/p>\n

In the 2019 report, and as was noted in our interview last year with A4Ai\u2019s Research Director, Dhanaraj Thakur, on the 2018 report<\/a>, very few Caribbean countries are included in the assessment. Although 61 countries were examined, only the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica were examined. However, the discussion and analysis of the findings may still be applicable to the wider Caribbean region. In the sections that follow, we highlight key findings of the latest Affordability Report, and discuss them from a Caribbean perspective.<\/p>\n

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The A4AI 2019 Affordability Report<\/h3>\n

The bedrock of the A4AI Affordability Report is the Affordability Drivers Index (ADI) which assesses select indicators that are considered key drivers of Internet affordability. The indicators have been categorised into the following two sub-indices:<\/p>\n