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Digital Solidarity Fund
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| Date added: | 2005-03-31 |
| Sector: | Agriculture | Education | Environment | Governance | Health |
| Theme: | Capacity building | Evaluation |
A plan for wealthy nations to contribute a digital tax to provide hi-tech tools for poor nations was officially launched in Geneva.
The idea is the brainchild of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and Geneva is the first city to sign up. It plans to contribute 1% of the profit companies make on public technology projects to the fund. Dubbed the Digital Solidarity Fund, the digital tax has the backing of France, Nigeria, Algeria and Senegal.