Digital Inclusion, PCs, Recycling, Africa: Digital Pipeline, a charity founded by Microsoft, aims to foster digital inclusion for disadvantaged communities. With over 31million PCs per year ending up in landfill, Digital Pipeline is calling for organisations to donate computers they are no longer able to use, to be refurbished and redeployed to underprivileged schools and community groups across Africa.

Multi-Media, Environment, Rural, Cameroon, Africa: Protege QV - Promotion of Technologies that Guarantee Environment and a better Quality of Life - is a Cameroonian NGO created in 1995. It aims to promote individual and collective initiatives to induce rural development, protect the environment and improve community well-being. Avis Momeni, Executive Director of Protege QV, introduces his organisation to us and then describes an exciting and vital project...

Wireless, 3G, HSDPA, Rural, Sri Lanka: Qualcomm is launching its Wireless Reach initiative in Sri Lanka by opening a Last Mile Initiative (LMI) centre in Wennappuwa. The centre, known as Easy Seva, is one of 15 that will be launched in the country with support from Qualcomm, Dialog Telekom, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the National Development Bank (NDB) and Synergy Strategies Group (SSG).

The South Pacific has been largely ignored by global ICT deployment initiatives. Chip-maker VIA Technologies has just announced the first-ever solar-powered cyber community centre in the South Pacific. The project harnesses the power of the sun to provide people in rural and remote communities with reliable and clean computing and Internet access.

Analysis, Digital Divide, Infrastructure, Global: Robert G Rogers is Executive Director of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission. In a forceful statement on the Digital Divide he identifies what for him is the crucial question - lack of infrastructure.

The full impact of mobile phone technology in extending access to communications and improving the daily lives of the poor throughout the world's emerging nations is only now beginning to be appreciated. In this analysis Michael Bjarhov of Ericsson examines some of the challenges that still lie ahead.

Will the Internet fulfil the developing world’s dream and become the great economic leveller? There is a long way to go but there are encouraging signs that commercial as well as political factors are leading the way in bridging the great digital divide – the gap between those societies with access to communications technology and those without. Jean Hervé Jenn, President, International, Convergys Corporation reviews the evidence from around the world.