Foundations of ICTs in Development: Pushing and Pulling

As one instance, let's examine the WSIS Action Plan from this perspective. In it, we find lots written about: • supply environment (policies, strategies, laws, etc.) • supply of resources (network infrastructure, building skills and other capacities, finding money, building knowledge, building confidence, etc.) • supply mechanisms (public-private or multi-sector partnerships, etc.) and • applications (digital libraries, e-commerce, e-government, e-health, etc.)