João Paulo de Vasconcelos Aguiar

Moving the Needle on Universal and Meaningful Access

According to the International Telecommunication Union’s Facts and Figures 2025, an estimated 6 billion people—about three-quarters of the world’s population—are now using the Internet. Ten years ago, the estimate was roughly 3.2 billion people. Nearly twice as many people today have access to the opportunities the Internet offers, and this is no small feat. But these numbers also remind us how far we still have to go. 2.2 billion people are still offline.