Digital Connectivity: The Infrastructure of the Future

TLDR

Good practices—including infrastructure sharing, international coordination, and public–private collaboration—are instrumental for leveraging technology and business models innovations capable of disrupting traditional digital connectivity infrastructure deployment cost-benefit structures, hence enabling advancements in the connectivity frontier.

Abstract

This document discusses good practices for strengthening the institutional, legal, regulatory, and policy frameworks in order to revert the currently insufficient investment that decisively contributes to the existing digital connectivity infrastructure gap. These good practices—including infrastructure sharing, international coordination, and public–private collaboration—are instrumental for leveraging technology and business models innovations capable of disrupting traditional digital connectivity infrastructure deployment cost-benefit structures, hence enabling advancements in the connectivity frontier, which is a necessary enabler for mainstreaming upcoming innovative applications aimed at increasing productivity and well-being.