The remarkable information technology advances have created vast new opportunities, yet they have also generated 'new divides' between rich and poor," UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said last week at a meeting of information and broadcasting ministers in Bangkok. The widening digital divide has led the UN to call the first-ever World Summit on the Information Society this December, bringing together political, private sector, civil society and media leaders to spread the benefits of the digital revolution and promote "inclusive digitalization."