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Digitalization presents immense opportunities for development in Eastern and Southern Africa, including job creation, poverty reduction, and improved service delivery, but current levels of internet availability and access are insufficient and uneven. The region currently has the slowest pace of digitalization globally, with only 64 percent of the population covered by high-speed internet, and just 24 percent of the population using the internet as of 2023. Learn more...

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