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Liechtenstein

Closing the digital divide, expanding meaningful connectivity, and advancing digital education and workforce participation.

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Liechtenstein

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Population (2024)
40,450
Total area
160 km²
Area in square miles
61.78 mi²
Coastline
Landlocked · 0 km
Base map adapted from Wikimedia Commons. Population: World Bank (2024); geography: CIA World Factbook.

National digital inclusion context

A portfolio-based view of access, capability, and outcomes.

This profile organizes the initiatives directly connected to Liechtenstein 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, Backbone / Backhaul / Middle-Mile Infrastructure, Last-Mile / Access Infrastructure, Digital Identity / e-ID, Fiber/Fiber Optic. The profile treats infrastructure, affordability, capability, institutions, support, and outcomes as an interconnected system.

Portfolio pattern

What the documented response contains.

Counts reflect source-workbook tags. One initiative may appear in multiple infrastructure or technology categories.

Infrastructure and access

  1. Fiber / Fixed Broadband Infrastructure3
  2. Backbone / Backhaul / Middle-Mile Infrastructure1
  3. Last-Mile / Access Infrastructure1
  4. Mobile / Wireless Infrastructure1
  5. Telecommunications / Broadband Infrastructure1

Specific technologies

  1. Digital Identity / e-ID5
  2. Fiber/Fiber Optic3
  3. FTTB2
  4. 5G1
  5. Biometrics1

Intervention classification

  1. Neither explicitly identified7
  2. Specific Technology only5
  3. Infrastructure and Specific Technology3

Education and workforce

Connectivity becomes consequential through participation.

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.

Access

Networks, service availability, devices, and connection quality.

Capability

Skills, confidence, accessibility, navigation, and support.

Participation

Education, work, health, government, and civic opportunity.

Sustainability

Governance, operations, maintenance, funding, and learning.

Project and initiative portfolio

15 documented records

Every directly tagged record is shown with details and supporting URLs preserved from the research workbook.

01

Mobile broadband deployment

5G Rollout Enabled by Nationwide FTTB

Ongoing · Nationwide
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Status / periodOngoingLocationNationwidePopulationMobile users and IoT usersOrganizationsMobile operators; Office for Communications

Uses nationwide fiber backhaul as the foundation for higher-capacity 5G coverage.

Activities and approach: 5G radio cells; fiber backhaul

Fiber / Fixed Broadband InfrastructureMobile / Wireless InfrastructureBackbone / Backhaul / Middle-Mile InfrastructureLast-Mile / Access Infrastructure
02

Network modernization

Copper Network Retirement and Fiber Migration

Phased · Nationwide
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Status / periodPhasedLocationNationwidePopulationLegacy-network customersOrganizationsLKW; service providers

Moves users from capacity-constrained copper/coax to fiber so all locations can access modern broadband.

Activities and approach: Copper decommissioning; fiber migration

Fiber / Fixed Broadband InfrastructureFiber/Fiber OpticCoaxial Cable
03

Digital business public service

e-MWST online VAT service

Operational · Nationwide
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Status / periodOperationalLocationNationwidePopulationBusinesses and tax professionalsOrganizationsLiechtenstein National Administration

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Electronic VAT transactions and administration

04

Digital public communication

eDelivery / ePostPlus secure digital correspondence

Operational · Nationwide
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Status / periodOperationalLocationNationwidePopulationCitizens, businesses and administrationOrganizationsLiechtenstein National Administration

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Secure electronic delivery of official correspondence

05

Digital credential

eID.li cross-border commuter registration credential

Operational · Liechtenstein / cross-border commuters
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Status / periodOperationalLocationLiechtenstein / cross-border commutersPopulationCross-border commutersOrganizationsLiechtenstein National Administration

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Digital commuter-registration confirmation in eID.li

Digital Identity / e-ID
06

Cross-border digital identity

eID.li cross-border EEA e-service authentication

Operational / expanding · EU/EEA-linked services
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Status / periodOperational / expandingLocationEU/EEA-linked servicesPopulationResidents and foreign eID.li usersOrganizationsLiechtenstein National Administration

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Authentication to compatible EU/EEA electronic services

Digital Identity / e-ID
07

Digital credential

eID.li digital driver's licence credential

Operational · Nationwide
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Status / periodOperationalLocationNationwidePopulationLicensed drivers with eID.liOrganizationsLiechtenstein National Administration

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Encrypted digital driving licence in eID.li app

Digital Identity / e-ID
08

Private-sector digital identity

eID.li integration for private web services

Operational · Liechtenstein private services
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Status / periodOperationalLocationLiechtenstein private servicesPopulationCustomers and businessesOrganizationsOffice of Information Technology; private providers

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Free technical integration of eID.li login into qualifying private web services

Digital Identity / e-ID
09

Digital identity

eID.li modernized app rollout

Operational / February 2025 onward · Nationwide and eligible foreign users
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Status / periodOperational / February 2025 onwardLocationNationwide and eligible foreign usersPopulationResidents and users of Liechtenstein e-servicesOrganizationsLiechtenstein National Administration

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Secure mobile digital identity; modernized app; biometric reactivation

Digital Identity / e-IDBiometrics
10

Delegated digital access

eRepresentation

Operational · Nationwide
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Status / periodOperationalLocationNationwidePopulationBusinesses, representatives and service usersOrganizationsLiechtenstein National Administration

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Digital representation/authorization for e-government processes

11

Digital public services

my.llv.li citizen/business service portal

Operational · Nationwide
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Status / periodOperationalLocationNationwidePopulationResidents and businessesOrganizationsLiechtenstein National Administration

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Unified personal access to administration services

12

National fiber infrastructure

Nationwide FTTH Fiber Expansion

Ongoing / nationwide build · Nationwide
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Status / periodOngoing / nationwide buildLocationNationwidePopulationAll households and businessesOrganizationsLiechtensteinische Kraftwerke; service providers; Office for Communications

Connects approximately 11,200 buildings with future-proof fiber, removing geography-based capacity differences.

Activities and approach: FTTH/FTTB; nationwide fiber

Fiber / Fixed Broadband InfrastructureTelecommunications / Broadband InfrastructureFTTHFTTB
13

Open government data

Open Data Portal

Operational · Nationwide
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Status / periodOperationalLocationNationwidePopulationCitizens, researchers and businessesOrganizationsLiechtenstein National Administration

Closes a documented access, affordability, skills, institutional-capacity, or meaningful-use gap.

Activities and approach: Publication and reuse of government datasets

14

School digital-access initiative

School ICT Project

Ongoing · All schools
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Status / periodOngoingLocationAll schoolsPopulationStudents and teachersOrganizationsOffice of Education; Office of Information Technology

Provides modern WLAN, mobile devices and software across schools, reducing device/network access differences.

Activities and approach: WLAN; mobile devices; software; digital curriculum

EducationK–12
15

Digital education support

School IT Coordination and Digital Media Support

Ongoing · Schools nationwide
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Status / periodOngoingLocationSchools nationwidePopulationTeachers and studentsOrganizationsCenter for School Media; Office of Education; Office of IT

Sustains effective use of connected devices and digital media so infrastructure translates into meaningful access.

Activities and approach: Device operations; software evaluation; teacher support; media resources

EducationK–12

Evidence boundary

Read the portfolio as a starting point, not a final verdict.

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.

Evidence and contextProfile Sources

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.

  1. Central Intelligence Agency. (n.d.). Liechtenstein. The World Factbook. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/liechtenstein/
  2. International Telecommunication Union. (n.d.). ITU DataHub: Country ICT data. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://datahub.itu.int/
  3. World Bank. (n.d.). Individuals using the Internet (% of population): Liechtenstein. World Development Indicators. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS?locations=LI
  4. World Bank. (n.d.). Population, total: Liechtenstein. World Development Indicators. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=LI

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