"From the Classroom to the Boardroom"

For about 700 million of us, the past decade has been a rush. The Internet, broadband and cheap computing devices have changed the way we work, live and play. The other 5.6 billion people on the planet have missed the party. On their side of the digital divide, Google is not a verb, and Spam still comes in a can. Some progress has been made, much work remains. When compared to worldwide averages, in the developing world, the number of Internet Users is 40% while the number of PC's per capita is less than one third and the number of Internet hosts is less than one-tenth!. The developing world's need for additional infrastructure investment exceeds $100 billion in the next five years alone. But, closing the digital divide doesn't start by handing everyone a computer or a PDA. It starts by addressing and resolving the digital divide's fundamental triggers, the biggest of which, is education. Since 1992, BETF has been working to be part of the solution. Will you help us?