A community model for rural connectivity, Green Energy access and Small scale industrialization.
To deliver socio economic transformation of population in rural areas requires two key enablers - Broadband access and electricity. Broadband technologies deliver internet access to unlock access to services while electricity delivers lighting and powers multi-sectoral industrialization. Telco and Infrastructure companies in many African countries, and with patient capital from development partners are trying to bridge the unconnected, unserved and underserved Gap in rural areas with lowcost, smart, site infrastructure solutions paving the way for a digital transformation journey for these areas. There is still some way to go, because based on the GSMA State of mobile Internet Connectivity Report 2021, Broadband penetration in Subsaharan Africa stands at 28% , with 210m people still unconnected. This is compounded by the fact that the cost of extending Hydro electricity is still very high, estimated in the range of USD20,000-30,000 per Kilometre . According to an IEA World Energy Ou