The Connectivity Crisis

<p><span style=color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>With 2.6 billion people completely offline from the Internet as of early 2025 and another 2 billion barely meaningfully connected more than half of humanity faces the 'Connectivity Crisis'.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 33 33 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>Drawing from firsthand experience and rigorous analyses this book explores both being unconnected and meaningful connectivity as a basic human right and offers practical strategy collaborative technical policy regulatory and leadership recommendations for bridging the global digital divide.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 33 33 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>Inspired by Kettering's a problem well stated is half solved Pareto's 80:20 law and real-world digital exclusion realities in developing countries the book examines how leaders policy makers entrepreneurs multi-lateral development banks and industry stakeholders can collaborate to start addressing this Connectivity Crisis.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 33 33 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(33 33 33 1)>This is both a personal account of a problem affecting billions and a call to action for anyone positioned to make a difference. Whether you're a government leader ICT Minister development banker engineer student or decision-maker this book invites you to take bold steps towards universal digital access and help transform billions of lives through meaningful connectivity.</span></p>