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Nov
The Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, a public/private partnership established by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), has ratified the first multi-stakeholder study aimed at creating practical tools and actions that could enable nearly 3 billion more people to access and use the internet through a smartphone by 2030. Data from a new report by the Commission’s Working Group on Smartphone Access, co-chaired by Nick Read, CEO of Vodafone Group, and including representatives from the government of Ghana, has found that at least 76% of adults in advanced economies own a smartphone…