ABSTRACT
Human resources consist of people who can provide proper training in the techno-literacies needed to successfully access and explore online worlds. The World Wide Web seeks to be a universal phenomenon but the Web and other aspects of digital culture are far from worldwide. Communities targeted for digital inclusion projects are approached precisely because there seem to be too few members in the village, town or city that the project seeks to serve. Government support for inclusion projects has varied immensely across differing countries, and not always as a function of the relative wealth of the countries. It has more to do with understanding that digital inclusion can build community, and can improve overall economic and physical health. Digital technologies and the nearly instantaneous transnational communication links they enable have been almost universally cited as a key factor in the economic, political and cultural processes that make up contemporary globalization.
