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Promoting the use of universal service funds or assistance funds for connectivity projects aimed at remote or underserved rural areas and ensuring they have the facilities that would make it possible for them to gain access to all kinds of operators. 2. Fostering and supporting the implementation of business models that motivate the entry of new economic agents and promote their financial sustainability. 3. Encouraging the discussion, in the region’s countries, of the analysis of fiscal measures to favor connectivity. 4. Rural connectivity policies should give priority to technologies and projects that show sustainability, efficiency, and rapid implementation in rural areas. 5. Boosting public and private investment, as well as public-private ventures, partnerships, and the sharing of infrastructure in rural areas. 6. Promoting local innovation ecosystems, as well as strategies for ownership of technology in rural areas. 7. Providing incentives for the participation of small and community operators in providing services to unserved areas, through specific licensing measures, access to key infrastructure, and social coverage promotion programs. 8. Promoting cooperation and dismantling barriers to the deployment of infrastructure between central and local government to resolve the issues of permits and rights of way. 9. Promoting the drafting of Guides on Best Practices for the deployment of infrastructure, as well as the standardization of local requirements and regulations. 10. Periodically examining the regulation applicable to rural connectivity in order to respond quickly to the specific demands and needs of connectivity in rural areas. 11. Adapting minimum standards of service quality, speed, and continuity of service in rural communities. 12. Promoting specific incentives for rural areas (investment, rates, contributions, etc.). 13. Continually measuring the progress of projects in order to foster connectivity, publishing their reports systematically and continually, measuring their impact, and adopting necessary corrective measures, if any. 14. Fostering the development of a connectivity mapping system that identifies the places where there is installed infrastructure and connectivity. 15. Creating a regulatory environment that fosters innovation and investment for technological development, analyzing all the technological offers for connectivity in accordance with the needs of each country. 16. Analyzing the relevance of allowing operators to allocate partially or totally the due contribution amount to access and universal services funds for rural connectivity projects defined by connectivity policies in accordance with the needs of...