- Through the Smart Villages Initiative, ten additional villages in Niger have been connected. The services are now scaled up in those villages and include:
- Mobile voice-based messages for agriculture extension in local languages,
- Unstructured Supplementary Services Data (USSD) service to access agriculture market prices,
- Early childhood illness diagnosis tool,
- Talking book (an audio device) that disseminates agriculture and health messages,
- Local village microserver with a full learning management system and local content,
- Digital literacy training.
- The Smart Village Initiative was also planned in Egypt, Liberia and Pakistan.
- The Smart Islands Initiative was launched and Vanuatu adopted it as a national programme. The programme, built on the Smart Villages initiative, adopts an innovative approach to deliver connectivity and scalable and sustainable services to disadvantaged island communities.
