Social Equity and Human Rights: Increasing Digital Access in Zambia.

$Intel (INTC.US)$ We also formed an alliance with 50 partners from Fortune 500 companies, NGOs and academia to build up the N50 Project focusing on closing the participation gap in the digital world. N50 works with the Welcome to America Project in Phoenix, where they provide digital literacy skills, online English as a second language tutoring and job searching for local refugees. The partners also support the rollout of technology in Luumbo, a rural community in southern Zambia, to ensure that education, health and agricultural needs of the community are met. Mwabu provides education content for a local school to improve learning outcomes, and doctors are supplying virtual support for the rural health clinic. N50’s project goal is to provide marginalized communities with better web and technology access, which will, in turn, give them access to resources for education, health, social and financial benefits. This pilot project will track progress during 2022 and provide data that will help create a blueprint model for sustainable network integration. With nearly 3.9 billion people yet to be introduced into the digital world, this is the beginning of a long road for N50.