India

Provides universal 4G coverage and upgrades 2G/3G-only villages.

Activities and approach: 23,000+ new sites; indigenous BSNL 4G stack

Targets villages lacking mobile service with subsidized 4G deployment.

Activities and approach: 4G mobile network; towers; universal-service subsidy.

Installs 4G infrastructure in uncovered villages, directly closing mobile coverage gaps in underserved districts.

Activities and approach: 4G mobile towers; village coverage; operator subsidies.

Reduces exclusion caused by lack of portable formal identity and enables interoperable access to public and financial services.

Activities and approach: Digital identity enrollment; authentication; e-KYC; direct benefit transfer enablement; service integration

Improves beneficiary identification, reduces duplication, and supports more equitable resource distribution.

Activities and approach: Student-wise records linked with Aadhaar-based unique educational IDs.

building interoperable digital academic-record infrastructure intended to make educational records and progression more accessible across the education system.

Activities and approach: Digital academic records; credit records; student academic identity/record ecosystem; trusted education data infrastructure

Expands or enables connectivity for people and communities affected by digital exclusion, addressing availability and service-quality barriers.

Activities and approach: Free or public Wi-Fi access

Expands or enables connectivity for people and communities affected by digital exclusion, addressing availability and service-quality barriers.

Activities and approach: Network deployment or expansion; connectivity delivery

Extends affordable high-speed fiber and bandwidth to rural communities and explicitly targets the urban-rural digital divide.

Activities and approach: Optical fiber; FTTH; dark fiber; bandwidth leasing; SLA-based O&M.

Adds 4G coverage through 82 village sites and 42 highway sites.

Activities and approach: 124 planned 4G towers

Reduces disability-related barriers to digital and information access by providing AI-enabled assistive devices that support learning, work and daily independence.

Activities and approach: Distribution/support of AI-powered smart glasses; assistive technology access; educational and employment independence

Broadens digital inclusion to advanced assistive technology, helping people with disabilities participate more independently in work and daily life.

Activities and approach: Custom electronic prosthetic hands; fitting; rehabilitation support; independence and work-related functional recovery

Introduces computer infrastructure where it was previously unavailable and pairs access with structured digital-skills instruction targeted at rural and gender disparities.

Activities and approach: Computer labs; laptops; computer fundamentals; coding; AI; software design; game development; foundational digital literacy

expanding school computer access and exposing students to AI learning through donated equipment and instruction.

Activities and approach: Donate 25 all-in-one computer systems; conduct AI course for students

Provides foundational digital skills to learners with limited access to technology education.

Activities and approach: Digital-literacy classes; practical computer skills; youth training

Creates a dedicated modern public digital-learning facility intended to broaden equitable access to digital knowledge resources.

Activities and approach: Construction/establishment of a state-of-the-art digital library; digital collections and technology-enabled public access

Reduces unequal access to hands-on STEM and emerging-technology environments by placing innovation labs in schools nationwide.

Activities and approach: School innovation labs; design thinking; computational thinking; robotics; IoT; 3D printing; AI; prototyping; mentoring

Builds practical digital capability, confidence, project experience, and technology problem-solving skills for learners who may otherwise have limited exposure to advanced digital learning.

Activities and approach: Teaches digital skills and technology concepts to government-school children and supports practical technology learning.

Extends assisted digital banking and electronic payments into rural communities while creating local women-led employment.

Activities and approach: Banking correspondent services; digital transactions; benefit and wage payments; financial inclusion outreach

Builds a national rural fiber backbone and affordable high-speed broadband access to bridge the urban-rural digital divide.

Activities and approach: Optical fiber; FTTH; dark fiber; bandwidth; service assurance; rural Wi-Fi and access services.

Replaced constrained satellite dependence with high-capacity submarine fiber, significantly improving island broadband capacity.

Activities and approach: Submarine optical fiber; inter-island links; wholesale bandwidth.

Creates a physical-digital last-mile interface so residents can use online services even when household technology access or skills are limited.

Activities and approach: Assisted e-government; digital payments; online applications; education services; connectivity access; local entrepreneurship through VLEs

Builds digital capability and adoption support for rural, remote, underserved, or unserved communities, addressing skills and participation barriers.

Activities and approach: Targeted digital inclusion activities described in the cited source

Builds digital capability and adoption support for people and communities affected by digital exclusion, addressing skills and participation barriers.

Activities and approach: Targeted digital inclusion activities described in the cited source

Reduces paperwork and geographic access barriers by enabling secure, portable digital access to official documents.

Activities and approach: Secure document storage; issuer integration; digital verification; sharing of official records and credentials

Provides the national policy and implementation framework connecting infrastructure, public digital services, skills and inclusion.

Activities and approach: Broadband expansion; digital public infrastructure; assisted access; digital literacy; online education; e-government; skilling; innovation

Provides computers, projectors, and a policy foundation for digital learning in schools with limited infrastructure.

Activities and approach: School computers; projectors; teacher-supported digital learning

Expands access to quality, multilingual school content and teacher learning regardless of geography.

Activities and approach: Digital courses; teacher training; curriculum resources; NCERT textbooks; multilingual content; interactive and AI-enabled resources

reducing access barriers to justice through paperless courts, e-Sewa Kendras, online filing, digital records and assisted access

Activities and approach: Digitisation of court records; universalisation of e-filing/e-payments; e-Sewa Kendras; video conferencing; cloud repositories; AI/OCR-enabled case tools

Addresses the advanced-skills divide by making industry-aligned digital training and credentials available at national scale.

Activities and approach: Online courses; assessments; badges; industry-aligned certifications; emerging technology skilling

Places refurbished laptops into schools to expand access to computer-based learning.

Activities and approach: Donation, refurbishment and school deployment of laptops

Designs low-cost and open AI-enabled learning tools to work in constrained-bandwidth environments so emerging immersive education technologies are more accessible.

Activities and approach: Develop AI models; extended reality; game design; immersive learning; social-emotional learning; workshops and research collaboration

Would limit opaque device-based economic profiling and make digital marketplaces more transparent and equitable.

Activities and approach: Establish discriminatory-pricing guidelines; require independent algorithm audits; strengthen data-use rules; educate consumers; support comparison and collective transparency demands

bringing technology-enabled learning and future-ready skills directly to underserved communities

Activities and approach: Five mobile training vans; solar power; digital access; skills training

Reduces the emerging AI divide by making high-cost compute and AI resources more broadly available through public infrastructure and subsidies.

Activities and approach: Shared GPU compute; subsidized access; datasets and models; IndiaAI Kosh; ecosystem development; research and startup support

Reduces language and accessibility barriers to digital learning and information for sign-language users.

Activities and approach: Create and publish ISL e-content; STEM terminology; accessible books; digital language resources

Expands access to hands-on STEM innovation, mentoring and prototype funding beyond well-resourced schools and urban centres.

Activities and approach: Idea nominations; prototype grants; district/state/national mentoring and competitions; STEM innovation

reducing the emerging AI literacy divide by introducing structured AI and coding education across the public-school system instead of limiting access to private or elite programs

Activities and approach: AI curriculum, coding instruction, free Coding Gurukula special classes and statewide AI literacy implementation

Reduces the emerging AI access divide by giving public-school students direct exposure to affordable, open-source, on-device AI computing.

Activities and approach: Deploy KEO AI PCs; integrate open-source RISC-V hardware/software; on-device AI; expand to government schools statewide

creating a public higher-education pathway for advanced AI learning that can broaden access to high-value skills and credentials

Activities and approach: Establishment of a public AI university and launch of AI certificate courses

closing early-grade digital access and skills gaps through dedicated school digital-learning spaces

Activities and approach: Digital Square learning space for primary students; IT learning; healthy digital browsing; broader KITE scheme rollout in selected schools

Creates high-capacity fiber connectivity to 11 islands.

Activities and approach: 1,869 km submarine fiber

Extends mobile service into hard-to-reach conflict-affected areas.

Activities and approach: 4G/mobile towers

Builds digital capability and adoption support for students, educators, and schools, addressing skills and participation barriers.

Activities and approach: Targeted digital inclusion activities described in the cited source

Provides 4G to uncovered villages and fills mobile gaps along national highways.

Activities and approach: 4G towers

Provides scalable shared cloud capacity that enables public digital services to reach users without each agency building separate infrastructure.

Activities and approach: Government cloud hosting; shared compute/storage; application hosting; scalable digital service delivery

Takes eCourts, legal aid, dispute resolution and remote court participation directly to communities that face access barriers.

Activities and approach: Mobile eSewa vans; eCourts service delivery; legal aid; virtual hearings; HD video conferencing; high-speed multi-network connectivity

Expands or enables connectivity for people and communities affected by digital exclusion, addressing availability and service-quality barriers.

Activities and approach: Network deployment or expansion; connectivity delivery

Reduces geographic and information barriers by connecting agricultural markets to a common digital trading platform.

Activities and approach: Electronic trading; market integration; price discovery; quality information; online payments; farmer and FPO registration

addressing the emerging AI skills divide by scaling access to artificial intelligence training beyond elite institutions and major technology centers

Activities and approach: AI skills training, digital learning, youth workforce preparation and national skills delivery

Built foundational digital literacy before the larger PMGDISHA rural household programme.

Activities and approach: Basic computer and internet literacy; assisted digital learning; online-service skills

reducing geographic and financial barriers created by expensive private coaching through a free national digital learning network

Activities and approach: National online coaching platform, expert guidance, structured preparation, digital learning content and teacher participation

Reduces geographic and institutional disparities in access to higher-education connectivity, laboratories and digital learning resources.

Activities and approach: Institutional broadband connectivity; virtual labs; online learning resources; digital content and collaboration

Reduces the high-end computing divide by distributing supercomputing capacity across institutions and regions.

Activities and approach: Deploy supercomputers; shared HPC capacity; research support; AI and scientific computing; advanced manufacturing and modelling

Combines a small computer lab with science, mechanical, and robotics kits to sustain learning despite unreliable internet.

Activities and approach: Basic computer lab; science kits; mechanical kits; DIY robotics; hands-on teaching

Expands low-cost public Wi-Fi through distributed Public Data Offices, supporting affordable last-mile broadband access.

Activities and approach: Public Wi-Fi hotspots; PDOs; app providers; broadband backhaul.

Addresses the skills and meaningful-use divide at household scale by building practical digital capability.

Activities and approach: Digital-literacy training; device and internet use; digital payments; online government services; communication and information access

bridging rural-urban digital skill disparities through structured introductory AI education

Activities and approach: Four-hour AI for All course; state-level assessment; integration within Project Praveen’s future-skills training for school students

supporting scalable projects that improve digital access, skills, and related inclusion outcomes for women.

Activities and approach: Accelerator applications; support innovative digital access and digital-skills projects; financial inclusion-related innovation

Targets the emerging AI skills divide by ensuring broad, geographically equitable access to foundational AI education.

Activities and approach: AI awareness; foundational AI skills; educator AI literacy; future-ready skilling.

Reduces geographic and institutional barriers to higher-education courses, certifications and continuing learning.

Activities and approach: Massive open online courses; university coursework; assessments; certifications; local chapters; blended and hybrid learning

Builds practical digital capability, confidence, project experience, and technology problem-solving skills for learners who may otherwise have limited exposure to advanced digital learning.

Activities and approach: Supports students in developing prototypes and learning through hands-on maker and technology projects.

Creates shared community technology access points that reduce device, skills, and learning-resource barriers for underserved learners.

Activities and approach: Community digital libraries; public computing; digital learning resources; free/open-source software; youth learning and mentoring

Builds practical digital capability, confidence, project experience, and technology problem-solving skills for learners who may otherwise have limited exposure to advanced digital learning.

Activities and approach: Creates peer-learning and project spaces in colleges for collaborative technology learning, projects, and student activities.

Builds digital capability and adoption support for students, educators, and schools, addressing skills and participation barriers.

Activities and approach: Targeted digital inclusion activities described in the cited source

Measures computer, internet, accessibility, enrollment, retention, and infrastructure gaps to support more equitable education planning.

Activities and approach: School-level and student-level education data; infrastructure indicators; monitoring.

Provides interoperable real-time digital payments at national scale, widening access to formal digital financial services and supporting participation in the digital economy.

Activities and approach: Interoperable instant payments; peer-to-peer and merchant payments; mobile applications; bank integration; real-time settlement; cross-border acceptance

Reduces administrative and access barriers by digitizing disability certification, identity and benefit eligibility across jurisdictions.

Activities and approach: Centralized disability database; online applications; e-certification; UDID cards; assisted registration; API-enabled data sharing

Builds digital capability and adoption support for rural, remote, underserved, or unserved communities, addressing skills and participation barriers.

Activities and approach: Targeted digital inclusion activities described in the cited source

Provides shared computers, e-books and digital library services for people who may lack devices, subscriptions or suitable learning resources at home.

Activities and approach: E-library facilities; computers and associated equipment; e-books; digital library access; outsourced support staff

Builds local institutional technology hubs that can support teacher development, digital administration and technology-enabled education across school clusters.

Activities and approach: Desktop computers; interactive flat panels; inverters/batteries; HD webcams; UPS; public-address systems; multifunction printers; Wi-Fi routers; networking

Provides standardized digital teaching infrastructure, curriculum-aligned multimedia content and connectivity to government schools, reducing the technology gap between rural and urban classrooms.

Activities and approach: Interactive flat panels; LMS; multimedia content; 30 GB/month data plans; UPS; webcams; device management; endpoint protection

Builds digital capability and adoption support for priority populations identified in the cited source, addressing skills and participation barriers.

Activities and approach: Targeted digital inclusion activities described in the cited source