In 2022, the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development came together to address the gaps for reaching universal broadband connectivity and the Commission’s 2025 Advocacy Targets. 

  • The Commission’s 2022 State of Broadband Report, Accelerating Broadband for New Realties, examines how COVID-19 has spotlighted the need for a multilateral, collaborative regulatory regime to advance global digital transformation. 
  • The Commission’s Working Groups published three reports and one interim paper examining pertinent issues affecting broadband access, use and affordability. 
    • The report by the Working Group on AI Capacity Building, led by UNESCO and Nokia, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformation provides the tools to strengthen the abilities of civil servants to effectively use digital tools, develop and implement digital transformation projects, and address complex governance challenges.
    • The report by the Working Group on Virtual Health & Care led by the Novartis Foundation and the World Health Organization, The Future of Health & Care, provides practical recommendations for the future of virtual health and care: how countries can achieve access and equity through inclusive policies.
    • The interim publication of the Working Group on Data for Learning led by UNESCO, The Transformative Potential of Data for Learning, suggested five preliminary recommendations on harnessing the transformative potential of data to improve education systems, setting the stage for the Working Group report to be published in 2023.
  • On the margins of the UNGA 77, the Commission called for public and private cooperation across all sectors and geographies to unlock the power of digital learning by supporting digital transformation that delivers affordable and inclusive connectivity for the most marginalized learners, teachers and families, in its Open Statement to the Transforming Education Summit, drawing on its wealth of recommendations on SDG4. In addition, the Commission contributed inputs to other important UN-led processes like HLPF, WSIS Forum 2022, LDC5, Generation Connect Global Youth Summit, ITU WTDC-22 and the UN Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital Cooperation.
  • This year, the Commission met in Kigali, Rwanda in the spring, at the invitation of its Co-Chair H.E. President Paul Kagame, as well as in New York in the fall on the margins of the UNGA77, at the invitation of its new Commissioner, the Executive Director of UNICEF, Ms Catherine M. Russell.
  • In 2022, the Commission continued its Broadband Transforming Lives campaign, illustrating the power of broadband in everyday life.

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