A report from the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution discusses an initiative that would enable the United States, along with public and private partnerships, to help narrow the digital divide and support inclusive economic advancement in low- and middle-income countries while also advancing U.S. and partner countries' financial and strategic interests. The report, Bridging the Global Digital Divide: A platform to advance digital development in low- and middle-income countries (15 pages, PDF) provides data illustrating the scope of the digital divide and the need to close it to achieve the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). According to the report, while philanthropic donors recognize this dichotomy and have attempted to offer solutions, without a comprehensive, public-private partnership approach, those efforts will not achieve the scale and speed needed. The report recommends that the U.S. launch a significant "ending the digital divide initiative" that could catalyze or serve as a multi-donor, multi-party platform that would bring coherence to efforts to advance digital development in developing countries, covering infrastructure, policy reform, interoperability, cybersecurity, and capacity building. The initiative also would need to address more significant interconnected issues and attract the necessary investment for digitization to accelerate development outcomes and set the technical and policy framework for digital development.