<div dir="ltr">Broadband has the potential to be an enabler for reducing poverty, improving education, promoting gender equality, improving health services, ensuring environmental sustainability and providing a platform for global partnerships for development.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ </div>By some estimates, a 10% increase in broadband penetration in low- and middle-income countries can result in a 1.38% increase in economic growth.<div><br><a href="https://theconversation.com/better-connectivity-has-economic-spinoffs-for-africa-42341">https://theconversation.com/better-connectivity-has-economic-spinoffs-for-africa-42341</a></div></div>