Information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer developing countries unprecedented potential to initiate a process of catching up with countries developed. It provides effective ways to increase productivity, helps integrate economies into the global market, provides better educational opportunities and improves health services. ICT accounts for half of productivity growth in modern economies (Reding, 2005). Rich countries are certainly better able to exploit ICT than poor countries; “Inequalities in access to ICTs are still approximately double the average levels of income inequality” (UNCTAD, 2005). This is partly due to a more favorable starting economic situation, but other factors come into play. However, there are opportunities to narrow the gap through smart adoption of ICT, as well as success stories. Policies and the way policies are implemented by governments are the key factors in achieving this ambitious goal. In the mid-1990s, during the Clinton administration, the term "digital divide" came into regular use. The term refers to the gap between those who have regular and effective access to digital and information technologies, and those who do not (Warschauer, 2003). Adopting new technologies requires investment; A quick look at the GDP data allows us to draw a line between countries that can afford ICT and those that cannot: diffusion is clearly influenced by economic factors. However, despite this evidence, wealth distribution alone cannot explain the entire digital divide. The fact that countries with similar economic conditions show significant differences in ICT adoption rates has focused researchers' attention on other factors such as cultural and social aspects. It is important to take these factors into account when defining policies to reduce the digital divide. The digital divide can be divided into three main components: The economic divide The sociocultural divide The educational divide The economic divide The current distribution of ICT products (consumer devices and applications) is blatantly unequal. . If we consider for example the technological progress index (Rodriguez and Wilson, 1999) which combines televisions, cell phones, personal computers, Internet hosts, fax machines, R&D as a percentage of GDP, technicians, scientists and main telephone lines, it is clear that rich countries are much better off than poor countries: the top ten economies in the ITP world ranking are all members of the OECD while the bottom 10 economies are all in sub-Saharan Africa. This distribution is confirmed by more recent data on Internet penetration, broadband subscribers, mobile network and 3G services: Europe and the Americas still take the lion's share in terms of geographical distribution (ITU, 2006 ). Additionally, more than 80% of the world's Internet users are in OECD countries, which are home to approximately 20% of the world's population ( OECD, 2006).