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Shared foundation — the universal channel for the 80%
- What you are funding
- SMS, USSD and voice gateway, agreed with the operators and the regulator at zero cost to the citizen (reverse billing), a unified registry of people and places, Malagasy language and voice corpora, an X-Road interoperability adapter, and the governance body that holds these shared building blocks.
- Expected outcome
- The channel that reaches the 80% offline population is built once, for all five systems. The next service no longer pays that fixed cost again — and inclusion stops being out of reach for each project taken alone.
- Partners sought
- Bailleurs multilatéraux, coopération numérique, opérateurs télécoms, État (Unité de Gouvernance Digitale, ARTEC, Ministère du Développement Numérique)