Fortunately, the information revolution offers in education some of its more extraordinary opportunities. Governments can use information technology to improve sector planning, administration, and evaluation. Governments can test and introduce applications that promise a quantum increase in the efficiency of education - distance education, assisted learning, multimedia textbooks, education networks, and so on. A nation's endowment of skilled informatics professionals will strongly affect its ability to meet basic societal needs, to build competitive industries, and to exploit new development opportunities. This endowment depends on public and private education systems in tune with market demands.
Jump start the private sector.
Governments often can and do assist the private sector to overcome initial barriers, with firms then empowered as engines of growth and competitiveness. Private sector informatics export can take off with government policy support. Affordable and privately-financed teleports, free economic zones, and aggressive marketing and promotion have been used to jump start informatics export growth in Mauritius. Goals are to develop the local market for software, to test products in the market, and eventually to export the software products to other Chinese communities. Brazil has specialized science parks that emphasize the creation of new technology businesses by bringing together academic experts and business interests for a technology field, such as software.