Recently, two seemingly unrelated incidents pointed to one very compelling picture of the importance of digital access.
The hours-long outage of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp disrupted lives and livelihoods around the world, as people and companies were abruptly cut off from these communication channels they relied heavily upon.
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