:2) It is based on public initiative, whatever the legal or financial form of the renewal agency, where private enterprise may take over the work, as… - Manuel Castells

The origins of the Internet are to be found in ARPANET, a computer network set up by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in September 1969. ARPA was formed i 1958 by the Defense Department of the United States with the task of mobilizing research resources, particularly from the university world, toward building technological military superiority over the Soviet Union in the wake of the launching of the first Sputnik in 1957.

The fundamental digital divide is no measured by the number of connections to the Internet, but by the consequences of both connection and lack of connection.

At its core, the new economy is based on culture: on the culture of innovation, on the culture of risk, and the culture of expectations, and, ultimately on the culture of hope in the future.