The global growth of mobile networks and the expansion of the Internet are creating a new platform that can be leveraged across the economy and throughout sectors to provide better information, enhance access, catalyse change, improve social well being, and expand economic prosperity. For many countries, these communication “tools” are available but not exploited to their full potential. In other countries, the basic infrastructure or capacity to facilitate communication is lacking, potentially limiting the development of an economy, region, or group. Many governments already support network development, either through direct public investment, via the modification of universal service programmes, or by implementing mutually reinforcing policy actions across government.