Declaration on community connectivity

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11 Declaration on Community Connectivity
11 Declaration on Community Connectivity
This Declaration was elaborated through a multistakeholder process,
between July 2016 and March 2017. This participatory process
was initiated and facilitated by the UN IGF Dynamic Coalition on
Community Connectivity (DC3). Initial inputs and comments to this
document have been provided through an online consultation, open to
both DC3 members and non-members via the mailing list of the DC3,
between July and November 2016.278 Subsequently, an ample range
of stakeholders gathered during the 2016 IGF meeting, in Guadalajara,
to provide feedback and further discuss the text resulting from the
consultation. Feedback provided on site and via the IGF website
were consolidated into a further version of the Declaration that was
subsequently shared on the DC3 mailing list – which is open to the
participation of all interested individuals for a further open consultation,
between December 2016 and March 2017. The final comments were
consolidated into this version, to which no DC3 member not any other
subscriber to the DC3 mailing list has manifested opposition.279 It
should be noted that the Declaration is a living document and, as such,
it may be updated by future versions, should this be the common view,
emerging from the discussions facilitated by the DC3.
11.1 Preamble
Over four billion people may remain unconnected to the Internet,
including approximately one billion who do not have access to
basic telephony services. Most people in rural and economically
disadvantaged areas are unlikely to realise the benefits of
connectivity in the near term. Rural communities and slum dwellers
represent almost 60% of the worldwide population and, to date,
traditional Internet access models have failed to provide coverage
to such populations.
To reverse these trends, it is necessary to create appropriate
frameworks that allow communities and local entrepreneurs to solve
278 The version of the Declaration that was debated at the IGF 2016 can be accessed at
www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/4189/174>.
279 See the DC3 open archives as well as
www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/content/2016-dynamic-coalition-output-documents>.

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