Bisharat! is an evolving idea based on the importance of maternal languages in sustainable development and the enormous potential of ICTs to benefit efforts in the area of language and development. Anticipating the gradual introduction of computers and the internet to rural communities in Africa, the current focus of Bisharat is on research, advocacy, and networking relating to use of African languages in software and web content.

UNESCO and the University of West Indies Languages Unit launched the first website on the endangered languages in Carribbean.

Established in 2000, CEFIKS is committed to the inclusion of indigenous knowledge systems in Africa, specifically Ghana, in the information technology movement.

The goal of CBETA is to develop Buddhist Information technology, improve the exchange and accessibility of Buddhist scriptures, and use the special capacities of the electronic medium to store and deliver the scriptures of the Chinese Tripitaka to anybody who would like to access it.

Three countries - the United Kingdom, United States and China - produced 40 percent of the world?s cultural trade products in 2002, while Latin America and Africa together accounted for less than four percent according to a report published by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

OKN is a human network, which collects, shares and disseminates local knowledge and is supported by flexible technical solutions. Poor people must be able to express and communicate locally relevant knowledge in local languages if they are to shape the decisions that affect their livelihoods. Local content development is closely tied to human development, and the ultimate aim of OKN is the empowerment of local communities.