Communications

Infrastructure services, including information and communications technology, are the backbone of a functioning economy, facilitating growth and binding communities together. Information and communication technology has vast potential for fostering growth in developing countries by helping to increase productivity in a wide range of economic activities, from agriculture to manufacturing and services. Mobile phones keep families, communities and businesses in contact.

The Internet delivers information to schools and hospitals, and computers improve public and private services and increase productivity and participation. Increased computer usage and Internet access undoubtedly reduces the communications divide and plays a key part in the concept of globalization, but it can also be perceived as a threat to the identity of local cultures and economies.