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How ICT leads to growth? Well because of Connectivity, every information will be circulated fast and therefore people can react fast. We know what is going on half-way across the glove in an instant. Whether the Internet or mobile phones—is increasingly bringing market information, financial services, health services—to remote areas, and is helping to change people’s lives in unprecedented ways. “The mobile platform is emerging as the single most powerful way to extend economic opportunities and key services to millions of people,” says Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang, World Bank economist and editor of a new Bank Group report on information technology and development, Information and Communications for Development 2009: Extending Reach and Increasing Impact.1 Whether this great potential to contribute to growth is realized will also depend on whether governments understand the opportunity and ensure that supportive conditions (e.g. providing high-capacity connectivity) are in place through regulatory and policy reforms as well as strategic investments and public-private partnerships. Realizing the benefits of the Internet requires development of new content, services, and applications.