Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can play a key role in development and poverty reduction. But ICTs can only become an effective tool for development and poverty reduction if they are an integral part of a broader, more comprehensive national development strategy. Donor agencies need to ensure that their ICT programmes and strategies are better adapted to the specific needs and circumstances of individual developing countries and to become better informed through more information sharing and more rigorous analysis of recent experience of ICT-for-development programmes.