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Mauritius

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

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Mauritius

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Population (2024)
1,245,779
Total area
2,040 km²
Area in square miles
787.65 mi²
Coastline
177 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 Mauritius 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 Digital Public Infrastructure, Institutional / School Connectivity Infrastructure, Public Wi-Fi / Community Network Infrastructure, Wi-Fi, Artificial Intelligence (AI). 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. Digital Public Infrastructure2
  2. Institutional / School Connectivity Infrastructure2
  3. Public Wi-Fi / Community Network Infrastructure2
  4. Backbone / Backhaul / Middle-Mile Infrastructure1
  5. Fiber / Fixed Broadband Infrastructure1

Specific technologies

  1. Wi-Fi3
  2. Artificial Intelligence (AI)2
  3. Computer / Desktop PC1
  4. Digital Identity / e-ID1
  5. Fiber/Fiber Optic1

Intervention classification

  1. Infrastructure and Specific Technology6
  2. Neither explicitly identified5
  3. Specific Technology only3
  4. Infrastructure only1

Education and workforce

Connectivity becomes consequential through participation.

5 initiatives explicitly connect to education, K–12, or college/university contexts, and 2 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

Education connectivity measurement

2025 school internet-access monitoring

2025 outcome / published 2026 · Primary and secondary schools
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Status / period2025 outcome / published 2026LocationPrimary and secondary schoolsPopulationStudents and teachersOrganizationsStatistics Mauritius

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

Activities and approach: Monitoring school internet access and computer availability

Computer / Desktop PC
EducationK–12
02

AI literacy

AI for All national public literacy initiative

Operational / 2026 · Nationwide
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Status / periodOperational / 2026LocationNationwidePopulationAll citizensOrganizationsMITCI AI Unit

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

Activities and approach: Plain-language national AI learning resources

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Education
03

Accessible digital-service standards

Digital Service Framework for government services

Development / September 2026 · Whole of government
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Status / periodDevelopment / September 2026LocationWhole of governmentPopulationCitizens and users of public e-servicesOrganizationsGovernment Online Centre; MITCI

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

Activities and approach: Accessibility, interoperability, UX, cybersecurity and lifecycle standards

04

Cybersecurity and trust

Digital Transformation Blueprint – cybersecurity and trust mechanism

Implementation 2025-2029 · Nationwide
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Status / periodImplementation 2025-2029LocationNationwidePopulationCitizens, businesses and public institutionsOrganizationsMITCI; national cybersecurity stakeholders

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

Activities and approach: National digital safety mechanism; cyber resilience

05

Data governance and AI

Digital Transformation Blueprint – data governance and AI framework

Implementation 2025-2029 · Whole of government
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Status / periodImplementation 2025-2029LocationWhole of governmentPopulationCitizens and public agenciesOrganizationsMITCI; AI Unit

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

Activities and approach: National data governance; responsible AI; data-driven government

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
06

Digital skills

Digital Transformation Blueprint – Digital Skills for All

Implementation 2025-2029 · Nationwide
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Status / periodImplementation 2025-2029LocationNationwidePopulationAll citizensOrganizationsMITCI; education/workforce partners

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

Activities and approach: National literacy campaigns; targeted upskilling; universal access

EducationWorkforce
07

Digital identity and credentials

Digital Transformation Blueprint – Mobile ID and digital documents

Implementation 2025-2029 · Nationwide
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Status / periodImplementation 2025-2029LocationNationwidePopulationCitizens using public servicesOrganizationsMITCI; government agencies

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

Activities and approach: Mobile ID; digital documents; trusted authentication

Digital Public InfrastructureDigital Identity / e-ID
08

Digital public services

Digital Transformation Blueprint – unified portal and super app

Implementation 2025-2029 · Nationwide
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Status / periodImplementation 2025-2029LocationNationwidePopulationCitizens and businessesOrganizationsMITCI; Government Online Centre

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

Activities and approach: Unified portal; super app; life-event services; proactive communication

09

Digital public infrastructure

Digital Transformation Blueprint 2025–2029 – unified GovStack/DPI

Launched May 2025 / implementation · Nationwide
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Status / periodLaunched May 2025 / implementationLocationNationwidePopulationCitizens, businesses and public agenciesOrganizationsMITCI; Government of Mauritius

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

Activities and approach: Unified identity, data, payments and digital-service infrastructure

Digital Public Infrastructure
10

Public Wi-Fi / universal service

Free WiFi Zones Project

Operational; 225 sites listed as of Sep. 2023 · Public locations across districts
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Status / periodOperational; 225 sites listed as of Sep. 2023LocationPublic locations across districtsPopulationResidents and visitors, especially people needing no-cost public internetOrganizationsInformation and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA)

Provides free public internet access at health centres, village halls and other public locations to lower access-cost barriers.

Activities and approach: Public Wi-Fi hotspots; USF-supported connectivity.

Public Wi-Fi / Community Network InfrastructureWi-Fi
11

Submarine fiber connectivity

Mauritius and Rodrigues Submarine Cable (MARS) Project

Implemented / operational · Mauritius-Rodrigues
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Status / periodImplemented / operationalLocationMauritius-RodriguesPopulationResidents, businesses and public services in Rodrigues and MauritiusOrganizationsMauritius Telecom; PCCW Global; Huawei Marine Networks

Provides resilient high-capacity fiber connectivity between the main island and Rodrigues, reducing outer-island connectivity constraints.

Activities and approach: Submarine fiber optic cable; international/national backhaul.

Submarine / International Cable InfrastructureFiber / Fixed Broadband InfrastructureBackbone / Backhaul / Middle-Mile InfrastructureFiber/Fiber Optic
12

Primary-school broadband

Primary Schools High-Speed Connectivity and Wi-Fi Project

Implemented · 277 sites including primary schools and Government Online Centre
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Status / periodImplementedLocation277 sites including primary schools and Government Online CentrePopulationPrimary-school students, teachers and school administratorsOrganizationsGovernment of Mauritius - Ministry of Education

Provides school-wide high-speed network and Wi-Fi access to support digital learning and administration.

Activities and approach: WAN optimization; Wi-Fi hotspots; networking equipment.

Public Wi-Fi / Community Network InfrastructureInstitutional / School Connectivity InfrastructureWi-Fi
EducationK–12
13

Regional digital inclusion

Rodrigues digital-transformation implementation program

Consultation / implementation 2025 onward · Rodrigues
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Status / periodConsultation / implementation 2025 onwardLocationRodriguesPopulationRodriguan residents, entrepreneurs and public institutionsOrganizationsMITCI; Rodrigues Regional Assembly

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

Activities and approach: Smart public services; digital-skills programs; local innovation and entrepreneurship

Workforce
14

Secondary-school broadband

School Net II / Connectivity Project in Secondary Schools

Implemented in part; project documented 2020-2023 · 164 secondary-school sites in Mauritius and Rodrigues
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Status / periodImplemented in part; project documented 2020-2023Location164 secondary-school sites in Mauritius and RodriguesPopulationSecondary-school students, teachers and administratorsOrganizationsGovernment of Mauritius; Ministry of Education; MITCI

Designed to provide high-speed internet and wireless connectivity across secondary institutions.

Activities and approach: High-speed internet; Wi-Fi/LAN; school network infrastructure.

Institutional / School Connectivity InfrastructureTelecommunications / Broadband InfrastructureWi-Fi
EducationK–12
15

Outer-island satellite broadband

St Brandon Universal Service Fund Connectivity Project

Contract signed August 2026; deployment underway · Raphael Island, St Brandon Archipelago
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Status / periodContract signed August 2026; deployment underwayLocationRaphael Island, St Brandon ArchipelagoPopulationRemote island public services and economic usersOrganizationsICTA; Emtel Ltd; Ministry of Information Technology, Communication and Innovation

Extends internet connectivity to a remote outer island where conventional networks are difficult to deploy.

Activities and approach: LEO satellite connectivity; dedicated internet for public-service sites.

Satellite InfrastructureInfrastructure Planning / Mapping / FundingLEO SatelliteSatellite Broadband

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.). Mauritius. The World Factbook. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/mauritius/
  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): Mauritius. World Development Indicators. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.ZS?locations=MU
  4. World Bank. (n.d.). Population, total: Mauritius. World Development Indicators. Retrieved September 26, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=MU

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