Digital Divide Country Profile · Asia
Closing the digital divide, expanding meaningful connectivity, and advancing digital education and workforce participation.
Location in the world
Asia
IraqNational digital inclusion context
This profile organizes the initiatives directly connected to Iraq in the global research inventory. It follows the study's country-profile framework: national context, broadband infrastructure, inclusion practices, education and workforce connections, implementation actors, and intended contribution.
The documented portfolio emphasizes Fiber / Fixed Broadband Infrastructure, Mobile / Wireless Infrastructure, Institutional / School Connectivity Infrastructure, Fiber/Fiber Optic, FTTH. The profile treats infrastructure, affordability, capability, institutions, support, and outcomes as an interconnected system.
Portfolio pattern
Counts reflect source-workbook tags. One initiative may appear in multiple infrastructure or technology categories.
Education and workforce
2 initiatives explicitly connect to education, K–12, or college/university contexts, and 0 connect to workforce development. Other investments may enable these outcomes indirectly.
Networks, service availability, devices, and connection quality.
Skills, confidence, accessibility, navigation, and support.
Education, work, health, government, and civic opportunity.
Governance, operations, maintenance, funding, and learning.
Project and initiative portfolio
Every directly tagged record is shown with details and supporting URLs preserved from the research workbook.
High-demand mobile broadband expansion
Adds temporary and permanent radio capacity, fiber and microwave links to improve network quality under extreme demand.
Activities and approach: 25 mobile sites; 108 permanent sites; smart cells; microwave; fiber
Fixed wireless broadband
Prepares spectrum allocation for fixed broadband to increase competition and coverage.
Activities and approach: Fixed broadband spectrum auction
School broadband
Provides free high-speed fiber to thousands of schools, reducing institutional connectivity barriers.
Activities and approach: FTTH/fiber Internet; extended service hours
International fiber transit
Adds direct dark-fiber international transit capacity and positions Iraq as a regional data route.
Activities and approach: Dark fiber; submarine cable interconnection; international transit
Internet exchange / local traffic
Localizes traffic, reduces latency and transit cost, and improves resilience of Iraqi Internet service.
Activities and approach: Neutral IXP; peering; CDN; co-location
5G mobile broadband
Creates a new government-owned 5G network to improve broadband capacity and competition.
Activities and approach: 5G radio/core network; network design and launch support
FTTH broadband
Launches simplified fiber-to-the-home subscriptions and modernizes fixed broadband infrastructure.
Activities and approach: FTTH fiber; online provisioning
Satellite broadband
Adds a LEO broadband option particularly relevant for locations requiring advanced technical solutions.
Activities and approach: LEO satellite broadband
Universal-service broadband
Creates a roadmap for universal-service projects to expand access where commercial rollout is insufficient.
Activities and approach: Universal-service planning and financing
Universal-service school connectivity
Uses the regulator universal-service budget to provide thousands of school Internet lines alongside classroom technology.
Activities and approach: 3,000 Internet lines; school connectivity
Evidence boundary
Project records document interventions and intended contributions; they do not alone prove nationwide coverage, causal impact, or durable closure.
Profiles will deepen as national statistics, policy documents, evaluations, and implementation evidence are incorporated. Source links allow inspection of underlying evidence.
These sources support the country-level demographic, geographic, and connectivity context. Sources tied to individual projects remain with their project records and are not repeated here.