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Digital Connectivity

The Digital Connectivity Cluster is focused on supporting inclusive digital transformation across the Commonwealth.

Digital Economy – The Digital Connectivity Cluster is highlighting the role of Commonwealth governments in digital transformation, specifically on enabling the digital economy and digital value chains to facilitate trade.

Digital Trade – The Cluster is working to enhance digital connectivity across the Commonwealth, provide an enabling environment for digital trade and support capacity-constrained members to take advantage of the opportunities presented by digital trade. It is also exploring how digital trade can promote inclusive growth in the Commonwealth.

Digital Industrial Policy – The Digital Connectivity Cluster is sharing experience and expertise to enhance understanding and capacity in digital industrial policy by developing the evidence base on policies that enable digital skills development, digital trade and digital industrial development across the Commonwealth.

Member countries

Australia
Bangladesh
Barbados
Brunei Darussalam
Botswana
Gambia, The
Ghana
Kenya
Kiribati
Malawi
Malaysia
Malta
Mauritius
Nauru
New Zealand
Nigeria
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
South Africa
Trinidad and Tobago
Uganda
United Kingdom

Quick facts

E-commerce

Business-to-consumer e-commerce sales accounted for approximately 3.5 per cent of total GDP across the entire Commonwealth in 2015.
Internet users

Across the Commonwealth, for every 100 people, there were, on average, 43 internet users, 10 fixed broadband subscriptions and 37 active mobile subscriptions in 2016.
Manufacturing labour productivity

Econometric estimates suggest a doubling of the internet penetration rate, a proxy for digitalisation, would lead to a 5.3 per cent increase in manufacturing labour productivity, ceteris paribus, in Commonwealth countries.

Physical Connectivity

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Regulatory Connectivity