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Call to Action Call to Action. All are also founding members of the Partnership. These companies and organizations put forth summaries of their work to date and new initiatives to invest in the Northern Triangle, as follows: Accion Founded in 1961, Accion is a global nonprofit working to advance economic opportunity through microfinance and impact investing. Accion works with financial service providers across Latin America that are expanding the reach, quality, and affordability of financial services for low-income and underserved people. Over the next three years, Accion will provide advice...

House Agriculture Committee hears firsthand what is needed to help close the digital divide in rural America. During the pandemic, the need for access to adequate broadband only increased with an estimated 24 million Americans lacking. During a House Agriculture Committee hearing, members heard from those on the ground the need to update maps on areas that remain underserved as well as offer flexible funding to spread out costs to extend broadband coverage. “It’s essential we act to finally close the digital divide that has kept so many of our rural communities from reaching their f...

Wisper Internet Expands Relationship with Microsoft to Include Digital Literacy Posted on Share Home » Wisper Internet Expands Relationship with Microsoft to Include Digital Literacy Wisper Internet and Microsoft have broadened the companies’ relationship in the Airband initiative to include the latter’s global skills initiaitive, which offers curated learning for subscribers in the wireless ISP’s six state footprint. Microsoft’s global skills initiative has elements from several companies. It consists of LinkedIn Learning, the GitHub Learning Lab and four elements from Micro...

Microsoft is helping connect rural India to the internet with its Airband Initiative. AirJaldi worked with Microsoft to extend internet access to hundreds of thousands of people. AirJaldi is the first internet service provider to run entirely on the cloud with Microsoft's Azure. Microsoft continues its efforts to bring internet connectivity to unserved or underserved people around the world. Microsoft worked with AirJaldi to bring internet connectivity to rural India and highlights its efforts in a recent news post. AirJaldi now offers connectivity to more than 1,500 villages and 240,00 regis...