This will be made available to companies, governments, entrepreneurs and multi-lateral organizations. The WRI project will be conducted in partnership with major companies and other groups. Some 350 leaders of the digital industry, governments, foundations, businessmen and potential customers, attended the conference. It is the first conference of its kind that harnessed the digital community to look at the problems of the world's poor. Market drivers will be required to quickly and effectively bring the benefits of connectivity and participation in the e-economy to all of the world's people.
Researchers estimate that there are more telephones in New York City than in all of rural Asia.
There are more Internet accounts in London than in all of Africa. As much as 80 percent of the world's population has never made a phone call.