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At Broadband Commission’s Fall Meeting, Parallel to UN General Assembly,
SAMENA Council Reiterates Need for Innovatively Unlocking Access to
Diversified Capital to Fill Broadband Connectivity Gaps Around the World

SAMENA Telecommunications Council’s
CEO, Bocar BA, as Commissioner to the UN
Broadband Commission for Sustainable
Development, during the Commission’s
Annual Fall Meeting, held on 18 September
2022 in New York, emphasized on the
importance of broadening the base of
contributors for broadband infrastructure
financing and funding, echoing the tenor
of many discussions taking place around
the world to unlock new capital and
innovatively fill digital connectivity gaps
through new partnerships. The Annual Fall
Meeting of the Broadband Commission
this year focused on broadband’s role
as a key driver of the transformation
of education and the consequential
importance of universal, inclusive, and
affordable access to connectivity. The
meeting highlighted the importance of the
BBCom’s 2025 advocacy targets and how
to achieve them in the remaining three
years, dived into the role of technology in
education, how smaller businesses can
make big contributions towards broadband engagement. The meeting called on policy and financing, to ensure that access to
ecosystem development, and stressed the makers to broaden the base of contributors connectivity is universal, inclusive, and
centrality of continued multi-stakeholder to broadband infrastructure funding secure (with an emphasis on children),

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