Revolutions in computers, the Internet and telecommunications are creating unprecedented changes in the flow of trade, finance, and information. New industries, an explosion in entrepreneurship, increased access to education, new modes of community building, ease of access to global markets - all of these things, and many more, are dividends of dramatic changes in information technology. Yet the fruits of the information age are out of reach for many in both developed and developing nations.

This gap, the "Digital Divide", threatens to cut off whole populations from good jobs and the chance to participate in the affairs of the broader society. Businesses, great and small, established and new, are particularly vulnerable at this moment and are key elements in any productive solution of this issue. We intend to address the questions of the "Divide" by serving the challenge of business survival in an environment of constant change and uncertainty.