Fourth Industrial Revolution
Accelerating digital inclusion for 1 billion people by 2025
The World Economic Forum launched the EDISON Alliance to accelerate digital inclusion in critical sectors of the economy: health, education, and finance.
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American Tower
Founded in 1995, American Tower is one of the largest global real estate investment trusts (REITs) and a leading independent owner, operator and developer of multitenant communications real estate. Its primary business is the leasing of space on communications sites to wireless service providers, radio and television broadcast companies, wireless data providers, government agencies and municipalities and tenants in a number of other industries. In addition, it offers tower-related services in the United States, including site acquisition, zoning and permitting, structural analysis and construction management, which primarily support its site leasing business, including the addition of new tenants and equipment on its sites.
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Forum Institutional
Public-private partnerships can improve rural healthcare in the digital age
Public-private partnerships are powerful drivers of community-focused solutions for improved services including education and health-orientated provisions.
Emerging Technologies
How digital communities can build universal digital inclusion
What 300 digital communities across Africa, Asia, North America and South America can teach us about closing the digital divide and connecting the world.
