Bangladesh cellular phone technology and the Middle Eastern Virtual Souk have empowered artisans and petty traders, indicating that some LDC poor are reducing the digital divide. Moreover, the Internet, with its low entry barriers, is providing alternative sources of information, overcoming the restrictions of the national and international press, radio, and television (U.N. Development Program 2002a:77).11 Better communication increases the incomes and information of poor and middle- class people.