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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Verizon Communications
Verizon Communications is a holding company that, acting through its subsidiaries, is one of the world’s leading providers of communications, technology, information and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses and government entities. With a presence around the world, it offers data, video and voice services and solutions on its networks and platforms that are designed to meet customer demand for mobility, reliable network connectivity, security and control.
Impact
Publications
4 articles from Verizon Communications
Economic Growth
How to connect 1 billion people, and other lessons from the EDISON Alliance's internet access mission
Emerging Technologies
How can we bring 2.6 billion people online to bridge the digital divide?
Trade and Investment
Innovative debt financing could close the digital access gap. Here’s how
Energy Transition
5 key trends for the future of clean energy
Verizon Communications contributors
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