The traditional list of immediate basic needs used to highlight the importance of food, shelter, and clothing. This evolved to include sanitisation with an emphasis on the availability of running water. Over time, education and healthcare were added to the list. And now, in this age of digitisation, access to the Internet cannot be underscored enough.
Digital inclusion has been described as the combined and concerted efforts of, primarily, policymakers, Internet Service Providers, and other key players in the sector, to see to the provision of the Internet to digitally excluded populations.
