However, millions are not able to get online. In a move to narrow the digital divide between countries with access to info technology & those without, the World Bank and a Japanese Internet investment group, Softbank, set up a fund in Feb 2000 to help developing countries expand internet projects.
~ James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, said that 520 million dollar fund will be used to help set up indigenous companies to promote the Internet in 140 developing countries.