Solomon Islands

Directly targets cost/access barriers by making government e-services free to access.

Activities and approach: Zero-rated/free access model for SIG eGovernment services; portal accessibility.

Adds redundancy to the country's international fiber network, reducing outage risk and improving resilience of broadband-dependent services.

Activities and approach: Second submarine cable; interconnection with Bulikula/Pacific Connect; international fiber redundancy.

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

Activities and approach: Leverage lower-cost international capacity for services and economic activity

Provides the main high-capacity international fiber link replacing expensive constrained international bandwidth.

Activities and approach: Submarine fiber

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

Activities and approach: Improve movement of services, people and digital/economic access across islands

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

Activities and approach: Use of domestic submarine link for provincial broadband services

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

Activities and approach: Use of domestic submarine links for provincial broadband services

Builds workforce capability needed to operate and sustain accessible digital public services.

Activities and approach: Digital-skills development partnership; training and professional development.

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

Activities and approach: Connectivity investments to lower transaction costs and improve service movement

Provides a mobile channel for public services, broadening access beyond desktop-based government systems.

Activities and approach: Citizen mobile application; integrated digital-service access.

Strengthens local hosting, resilience and availability of government digital services and data.

Activities and approach: National data centre; sovereign hosting; resilient government infrastructure.

Seeks to expand online government services and make service delivery more accessible, inclusive, transparent and responsive.

Activities and approach: Whole-of-government eGovernment strategy; service digitisation; agency consultation; citizen-centric access.

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

Activities and approach: Competition, regulation and market measures to improve affordability

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

Activities and approach: Cybersecurity policy, awareness and safer digital participation

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

Activities and approach: Digital-literacy and ICT-skills development

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

Activities and approach: Digitize public services and strengthen online government access

Provides the policy framework for nationwide ICT deployment and domestic last-mile use of the new cable capacity.

Activities and approach: ICT infrastructure deployment; market development

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

Activities and approach: Policy implementation for nationwide access and infrastructure

Creates a trusted identity layer needed for equitable access to online public and private services.

Activities and approach: National identification system; identity-enabled digital services.

Builds confidence and skills to use digital financial services and formal digital business tools, addressing gender and skills gaps.

Activities and approach: Digital and financial literacy training; use of digital financial services; business formalisation support.

Strengthens digital capability outside Honiara by wiring all nine provincial headquarters, upgrading internet and training officials.

Activities and approach: Facility wiring; ICT equipment; upgraded internet connections; digital-literacy training for public officials.

Creates regional access points for digital government services, reducing geographic barriers in an archipelagic country.

Activities and approach: Regional service hubs; assisted access; decentralised digital-service delivery.

Extends affordable 4G/5G data and voice services to approximately 105,000 people while adding a new mobile operator and competition.

Activities and approach: About 79 cell sites; shared towers; 4G/5G equipment; LEO/satellite-enabled backhaul where fiber is unavailable.

Improves interoperability and data-driven service delivery across agencies, supporting more seamless digital access.

Activities and approach: Government data exchange platform; cross-agency data sharing and analytics.

Creates a common online payment channel that reduces distance and transaction barriers to government services.

Activities and approach: ePayment gateway API; integration with government services.

Extends and modernises the government network that connects more than 200 offices across all provinces.

Activities and approach: Government WAN modernisation; network expansion; infrastructure upgrades.

Extends international cable capacity to a major outer island.

Activities and approach: Domestic submarine fiber

Extends fiber capacity to Western Province.

Activities and approach: Domestic submarine fiber

Extends fiber connectivity to a remote provincial centre.

Activities and approach: Domestic submarine fiber

Raises broadband population coverage and extends mobile/data services to communities beyond the main urban centres.

Activities and approach: 161 4G base-station sites; tower construction; network commissioning; phased provincial rollout.

Creates an evidence base for inclusive digital transformation and identifies constraints in connectivity, government and digital participation.

Activities and approach: Whole-of-government digital readiness assessment; consultations with ministries and CSOs; prioritisation of digital interventions.