Curated Dashboards
The Internet Monitor team curates a series of boards on the Internet Monitor dashboard that highlight current trends, draw attention to insights found in the dashboard data, and showcase the power of the dashboard tool. A full list of curated boards is below.
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Ranking Digital Rights
RDR's Corporate Accountability Index examines companies' commitments, policies, and practices on freedom of expression & privacy. The verdict? Even companies in the lead are falling short.
Internet and Mobile Use in the Northern Corridor
Compare Internet and mobile use in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, and Uganda.
Few signs of leapfrogging: penetration tracks income
Connectivity trends track economic development. While this is unsurprising, it suggests that we haven’t found effective ways to leapfrog yet.
Keys to success are hard to pinpoint: progress comes as a package
Internet adoption, price, and speed move together in a consistent pattern: countries that do well in one area tend to do well in the others, making causal factors difficult to identify.
Intriguing outliers: literacy and Internet penetration
Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Nigeria, and Kenya all have penetration rates that exceed their ‘expected’ rate when looking at literacy rates. Each of these countries has a vibrant online sphere with a core of active intellectual elites.
Countries to study and emulate: affordability is critical
Countries with more affordable broadband tend to have higher Internet adoption. A few countries, including Paraguay and Azerbaijan, have higher levels of adoption than expected given current costs.
Mobile-dominant vs. convergence: alternative trajectories
High-performing countries do well on both wireline and mobile broadband adoption. Others are on a different, mobile-led trajectory; studying these cases will help us understand the benefits and limitations of this alternative path.
Early-stage connectivity + large-scale social and political change
The revolutions in Bahrain, Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia were facilitated by prepaid 2G/3G mobile connections and didn’t require high-speed wireline connectivity with broad penetration.
The digital dividend: higher bar for strong economic impacts
Higher levels of wireline penetration are correlated with strong economic impacts (as measured in the World Economic Forum's 2015 Networked Readiness Index): the hurdle for digitally-fueled economic change is high.
Global Media
Explore this week's hot topics in online media around the globe, in multiple languages.
Access and Infrastructure
Explore global trends in Internet access and infrastructure over time.
Country Comparison
See how four countries around the world compare on key Internet indicators.