Access is to be provided to as many as possible at the most reasonable cost.
The full Internet provides instant access for over 30 million users to data available on 4 million computers worldwide. Prior to that there were some grants related to E-Mail connectivity provided on an ad hoc basis by the local foundations. In '95 with a strategy and an abundance of contacts now in place, the program has matured and developed many avenues of funding opportunities. Formally, these countries were part of the ISF Internet project. However, ISF's need to concentrate on the four infrastructural projects it was involved in made it more feasible for these countries to be administered through the OSI regional telecommunications project.