Angella Nabwowe

Funding for information technologies (IT) in the least developed countries has proved to be the most difficult obstacle to overcome in the negotiations leading up to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).

In remote schools in rural Africa, students and even most teachers have never even seen a computer, let alone used one. Now an online library system and several other information technology initiatives will soon make education not only more affordable, but also much more accessible.