Although information and communication technologies occupy an ever-larger place in the daily lives of an enormous number of people, we must recognize that the penetration of ICT has not been consistent across all societies. This leads to the well-known “digital divide” between the so-called developed and developing countries. In fact, many African countries, which are also some of the poorest on the planet, are increasingly living in a world of technological deficiency (lack of access to knowledge that is available to everyone else via internet).

It has been demonstrated by the OECD that this lack of basic network infrastructure and international connection might be blamed on the more pronounced digital divide in the world’s lowest incomes areas. In concrete terms, apart from countries at war, African countries are lagging the furthest behind the Western World in this respect.

Accordingly, if African countries aim to better prepare their citizens for the challenge of this millennium, they must also foster a thorough integration of information and communication technologies, as well as the regular and routine pedagogical integration of ICT into education in order to tap new, attractive, promising and diversified potentials.