Half the world is online. The other half — the next 3.9 billion — is not. The N50 Project exists to close the gap, country by country, classroom by classroom.
N50 is not a programs shop. We are a working group — an alliance of telecoms, technology vendors, NGOs, universities, and policymakers — who agreed that closing the digital divide is too big for any one of us to solve alone.
What we do is make the math work. We aggregate the demand, the capital, and the technical capacity of 250+ organizations and point all of it at the communities the digital economy has so far left behind. The programs are run by our partners on the ground. We make the programs possible.
Founded 2019 · Headquartered in Phoenix, AZ · Operating in 32 countriesEach initiative is a focused vertical — a specific population, a specific access barrier, a specific set of partner orgs. Same coalition operating model, six different lanes.
Devices, broadband, and a teacher-training stack landed in K-12 schools that the digital economy has so far missed.
Read the programTelehealth infrastructure and clinician training extended to rural communities where the nearest specialist is six hours away.
Read the programWorkforce-readiness training that turns digital access into digital opportunity — and a measurable wage lift.
Read the programEquitable access to devices, training, and online opportunity for women — designed with women's-rights NGOs and global telecoms.
Read the programTurnkey AI tooling for underserved communities — translation, tutoring, and accessibility, delivered as packaged solutions.
Read the programLaptops, internet access, and continuing-education programming for refugees and internally-displaced learners worldwide.
Read the programEvery N50 initiative runs the same four-step model. The playbook is what makes a 250-organization coalition coordinate without becoming a committee.
Technology should be a connection point, not a dividing line. The N50 coalition is the first time I've seen industry, government, and NGOs actually point at the same target with the same playbook.
Erin Bown-Anderson
Executive Director · The N50 Project
How a 19-year-old in Sumatra used the For WomenKind device program to launch a hijab e-commerce shop with 800 customers in eight months.
The Mombasa pilot showed broadband + a single shared device + teacher coaching can move literacy outcomes by 18 percentage points in a year.
How the displaced-learners program kept 1,200 Afghan secondary students enrolled through resettlement — from Kabul to Karachi to Toronto.
Volunteer your skills. Bring your organization into the coalition. Or fund a learner today — a single laptop puts a student on the network for four years.