What is Digital COOPERATIVE?

On 10/6/2019, the UN High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation launched its report “Age of Digital Interdependence"with recommendations where the Basic Internet Foundation, with its DigI project efforts around the word was an ideal epitome for Global Digital Inclusion and building Internet access around community needs. Read the report here. Half of the world is still not connected, and our team at the Basic Internet Foundation makes a great effort on projects related to connecting the unconnected. When the report “Age of Digital Interdependence", on digital inclusive future, was published at the Digital Cooperation, UN Secretary-General António Guterres raised the awareness that governments, academia, and the civil sector should work together on digital inclusion and lessening the various forms of the gap. We fully support that. Our digital inclusion efforts in #SDG3 Health and #SDG4 Education got honoured by the UN High-Level Panel, and thanks to Nikolai Astrup, Minister of digitalization (Norway), Vint Cerf, (Google) and the panel members to appreciate that stakeholder collaboration and DigI project "Free access to information for all" is viable. On the UN Digital cooperation panel, Jack Ma from the Alibaba group emphasized that we need to find ways to change the education system so our kids can compete with computers, to be more creative, innovative and constructive, and include them in the current ICT for education. This influences the digital literacy life-long skills that will enable them for the workforce, entrepreneurship, and social contribution.