Abstract
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s current situation is characterized by a catastrophical very poor access to both Good Quality Electricity (GQE) and High Speed Internet (HSI) which are natural rights and primary needs. If the limited access to GQE and HSI are established fact we are concerned about how it affects the individuals in particular and the country in general and what parts of DRC are affected by this problem. In this paper we describe this identified societal problem in “natural language” through some stages towards the comprehensive understanding and perception of our core hypothesis: “The access to GQE and HSI for all DR Congolese localities/towns/villages of at least 1,000 families is a complex societal problem”. We give a solution to part the problem. The current part consists of the global understanding of the problem by the stakeholders. It is a first brick that will contribute to solving a global problem. This paper does implement the first step/layer of a much broader methodological framework, having 9 layers, which is called COMPRAM (Complex Problem HAndling Methodology). The first layer of COMPRAM does involve three core steps: (1) personal consideration and observation by the analyst(s) (named M1), (2) information retrieval from literature and other sources (called M2), and (3) discussions with selected relevant experts and stakeholders (called M3).