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Name :	NAKAGAKI, Maiko
Date :	December 18, 2019
Organization :	Alliance for Affordable Internet/Web Foundation
Country :	USA
Job Title :	Strategic Partnerships Manager
Contribution :	With only half of the world’s population connected to the internet today and the digital gender gap widening, there is much to do to achieve the SDG goal 9.c to significantly increase access to information and communications technology and strive to provide universal and affordable access to the Internet in least developed countries by 2020 and SDG goal 5.b to enhancing the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women. The Web Foundation and A4AI believe that there are opportunities and challenges with harnessing new and emerging technologies to achieve these sustainable development goals and others, such as the need to address the issues of affordability, consumer facing taxations on social media and mobile data, as well as expanding alternative innovative business models to expand access to the internet. Please see attached PDF for our responses to the four main questions posed by the CWG-Internet.
Attachments :	ITU CWG-Internet Submissionby WF_A4AI for Dec 2019.pdf