The following are examples of concrete actions carried out in the field in the context of this project:

-The broadband offer for low-income populations in Antananarivo (Madagascar) via the “DSL ACCESS and Wimax REV.E” project. As a result, beneficiaries of the project will have access to numerous applications in the field of education (training in ICT by means of tele-teaching), but also to commercial applications for the sale of products from their cooperative, such as peanut oil, wooden furniture, embroidered or woven goods, particularly due to the sales site that has been developed on the Internet.
- Setting up broadband access for isolated rural areas in Cap Rouge in Haiti by means of a pilot project called “Coffee Traceability”. Through this project, three coffee cooperatives in Haiti, members of the Federation of Native Coffee Plantations (FACN), will be able to have Internet access in their plantations, by using WiMAX and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technologies. This access to the most recent information technologies will enable them to guarantee correct traceability of their fair trade label production and to sell their coffee under the best possible conditions by limiting the number of middle-men. For Thierry Albrand, director of the Alcatel-Lucent Digital Bridge initiative: “Real implementation of the broadband Internet access offered to coffee-producing cooperatives, schools and a dispensary at Cap Rouge, Haiti, will give birth to extraordinary opportunities for economic and social development for the populations concerned. Our contribution to this exciting project, at the side of our main partners, Malongo coffees, the University of Nice and Voilà, is a new step we have made in concrete efforts for reducing the digital gap in the world”.
Moreover, since 2005 Alcatel-Lucent is a founder partner in the “Connect the world” initiative, carried by the International Telecommunications Union. “Connect the world” is a global, multi-partner programme, created in the perspective of the World Summit on the Information Society held in Tunis (November 2005). Its objective is to consolidate present telecommunications development programmes, make them progress and encourage new initiatives aimed at connecting all communities to information and communication technologies by 2015, in compliance with the United Nations’ Millennium objectives for development.