"Canasta Digital Social consists in providing an allowance with the latest generation broadband internet service for 24 months to 4,300 women living in communities with high levels of poverty and low internet penetration, between the ages of 20 and 60 and basic education level. This solution also includes a smartphone, so they can have access to internet and navigate.

As part of the project, these women are trained in digital skills and competencies, through a basic digital skills program with a gender focus.

Women will be able to safely use a smartphone and access Internet both to streamline their work environment and for their day-to-day tasks, without restrictions of use in any place and with sufficient data, also they will implement the training received to improve their quality of life, including, but not exclusively, obtaining a higher monthly income, and empowering them to the use of the ICTs.

INDOTEL, aware of the importance of access to broadband Internet service for the development of digital skills, productivity, and economic growth, and seeking alternatives that promote universal access, establishes among its priorities the development of initiatives that help increase Internet access, mainly for women heads of household, who are unable to cover their costs, in order to connect them to a quality internet service and therefore provide them with the opportunities offered by digital technologies for education, health, productive work, among others. Limited access to modern technologies limits their power to generate economy and transformation and, above all, limits their participation in society and knowledge.

With projects such as Canasta Digital Social, INDOTEL is committed to providing more opportunities for women to be active users of the new digital environment, with the belief that through these tools we are committed to greater empowerment for women and in their way to improve the quality of life of their families and therefore their communities"

https://presidencia.gob.do/noticias/gobierno-entrega-canasta-digital-social-2000-mujeres-beneficiarias-del-programa-superate

• Dominican Republic

• Women

"This model can be easily replicated in Latin America, since they are similar countries, in terms of the type of population that is intended to impact with this type of initiative, in fact INDOTEL is already working on a systematization model together with the Economic Commission for Latin America and Caribbean (ECLAC) so that this model can be replicated in other countries."

"The process was carried out through a national public tender for the acquisition of the service plan and delivery of smartphones with the service plan activated to the beneficiaries. The service provider company was responsible for the delivery of the benefit together with a staff of INDOTEL. On the other hand, the staff who were training the beneficiaries were hired, in addition to a company that taught the content of the basic digital skills program to that staff, so they can replicate that knowledge to the group of beneficiaries. The project will impact 4,300 females between the ages of 20 and 60, with a basic education level, with at least one family member active in school, and who are beneficiaries of the SUPERATE program. 22 provinces and 38 municipalities will be impacted, selected based on their highest concentration of households in poverty and with mobile coverage."