EDISON Alliance Impact Report 2024

Appendix Methodology The EDISON Alliance has gathered numerous commitments. However, tangible impact has always been the main priority for EDISON Alliance partners. The EDISON Alliance implemented a yearly commitment reporting exercise to measure impact on the ground and report progress against a collective 2025 target. What were partners asked to report back on? Partners were asked to report back on: • The total number of lives improved, based on each partner’s latest reported numbers. • If the information was available, a breakdown by KPI: lives impacted by geography, focus area, problem being solved (i.e. usability, affordability, access). How is progress tracked? All data comprised in this report was submitted by EDISON Alliance partners. Every organization and initiative have their own mechanisms for tracking and measuring the progress of their programmes; partners were relied on to track and share their progress. The EDISON Alliance wants to hold itself accountable to the aggregate impact of 1 billion lives. Therefore, each partner’s reporting process has been mapped to understand what they are tracking, and how and when they are reporting progress. To avoid force fitting a unique reporting calendar on partners, flexibility was built in for partners to report back numbers based on their own reporting cycles and availability of data provided. While collective progress will be communicated once a year at the Annual Meeting in Davos, partners follow tailored and individual reporting cadences, which remain the same year on year. Key considerations: • Lives impacted before the launch of the EDISON Alliance in January 2021 are not included in reporting numbers. • Since commitments are usually an aggregation of several digital inclusion initiatives, partners were asked, after consultations, to report back at the initiative level. • No individual partner data is shared externally, only aggregated and collective progress. How have you managed potential double counting of lives? In collaboration with partners, possible double counting was eliminated or reduced if: • Lives were counted more than once within the same initiative; unique beneficiaries are counted and not the use and the number of clicks or calls. • Lives were counted across more than one initiative within the same focus area; for example, if a student used two separate online learning platforms (education focus area) included in the same commitment. • Lives were counted by more than one partner. In the case where two partners have made separate commitments but a subset of their commitment includes a partnership, efforts have been made to avoid counting numbers twice. Ultimately, the goal is for people to use multiple digital services. This means there is meaningful collaboration and resources from more than one organization going into building a sustainable ecosystem and delivering a rich set of meaningful services for individuals. EDISON Alliance Impact Report January 2024 30 Contents