Somalia

Lets users obtain registration certificates digitally, reducing travel, waiting time and administrative friction.

Activities and approach: Online certificate download and delivery; integration with SNIDS.

Combines accessible computer training with targeted inclusion of youth and people with disabilities who face skills and access barriers.

Activities and approach: Accessible digital lab; basic computer skills; recurring training cohorts.

Makes a legally valid digital identity available by phone for online and offline service access.

Activities and approach: Mobile digital credential; online/offline verification; mobile onboarding.

Bridges missing network links and improves regional market integration.

Activities and approach: Backbone and market integration

Expands integrated regional broadband and lowers connectivity costs.

Activities and approach: Cross-border broadband

Improves ability to use regional digital services and trade platforms.

Activities and approach: Digital integration platforms

Provides low-cost online access through shared Wi-Fi.

Activities and approach: Wi-Fi hotspots

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

Activities and approach: Low-cost online facilities and Wi-Fi hotspots

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

Activities and approach: Advanced digital skills and job creation support

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

Activities and approach: Market-aligned foundational digital skills

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

Activities and approach: Access to cloud computing and quality data infrastructure

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

Activities and approach: Cross-border data governance and trade-enabling rules

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

Activities and approach: Equitable digital service delivery to reduce exclusion

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

Activities and approach: Identity systems enabling equitable access to digital services

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

Activities and approach: Fill missing fiber links and improve regional interconnection

Sets a national pathway from informational to transactional e-services and aims for accessible, citizen-centric government services.

Activities and approach: eServices expansion; life-event service design; digital channels; government process modernisation.

Reduces repeated-document and identity-verification barriers and enables trusted onboarding to digital services.

Activities and approach: Real-time eKYC and ID verification; API/service integration; cross-sector identity verification.

Provides a policy framework explicitly centred on inclusive digital transformation and modernisation of services and infrastructure.

Activities and approach: Digital inclusion policy; public-service modernisation; digital-skills development; infrastructure development.

Brings identity registration directly to populations facing mobility, documentation and access barriers.

Activities and approach: Mobile registration teams; biometric enrolment; rapid field registration.

Creates a roadmap for integrated, secure and trusted digital public services and foundational infrastructure.

Activities and approach: National digital-infrastructure roadmap; integrated digital services; trust and security architecture.

Accelerates use of a common digital identity across services so people can access services with a single trusted credential.

Activities and approach: Cross-agency integration; identity-service standards; coordination with service providers.

Decentralises registration so residents can obtain a digital identity without relying on a small number of urban offices.

Activities and approach: Permanent registration centres; extended opening hours; nationwide registration network.

Addresses digital-safety and online-violence barriers that can discourage women’s participation in digital spaces.

Activities and approach: Digital safety; prevention of online violence; practical protection tools and awareness.

Expands access to basic digital financial and government services.

Activities and approach: Digital services; entrepreneurship support

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

Activities and approach: Digital payment rails and service access

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

Activities and approach: Government digital platforms and institutional capacity

Provides a foundational identity credential for access to financial, government and private-sector services.

Activities and approach: Biometric registration; national ID issuance; service integration; digital public infrastructure.

Introduces satellite broadband intended to extend affordable internet coverage throughout Somalia, especially outside major cities.

Activities and approach: Commercial Starlink service authorization and launch

Maps connectivity, regulation, government and public-infrastructure gaps to prioritise future inclusive digital interventions.

Activities and approach: National digital-readiness diagnostic; connectivity and regulatory assessment; public-infrastructure mapping.

Creates the regulatory mechanism for extending telecommunications and ICT services to places and populations not adequately served by the market.

Activities and approach: Universal-access regulations and guidelines; rural-service expansion; equity obligations; vulnerable-group focus.

Builds market-relevant digital competencies and a talent pipeline for participation in the digital economy.

Activities and approach: Cybersecurity; data analysis; digital marketing; online business training.