Closing the digital divide

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Footnotes Competing interest: The BMJ has played a leading part in creating HINARI. Partly because bmj.com has been free to everybody since it was launched, I was approached by WHO to serve as a link with commercial publishers. I explained that many commercial publishers think me odd and suggested that one of our staff, Maurice Long, would do the job much better. Maurice knows everybody and is widely liked and respected. The BMJ Publishing Group (and so the BMA) has paid for Maurice's time while he has worked on this project. Meanwhile, the electronic version of the BMJ and all the BMJ journals are not only part of HINARI but also remain free to individuals as well as institutions in the 100 poorest countries in the world.