ICDANet's goals are to:

• Provide urban and rural communities with opportunities to explore the effective use of technology applications in learning, capacity building, and economic development.
• Promote community networking initiatives in rural and urban communities.
• Foster synergistic relationships among persons and organizations sharing similar missions, interests, and values.
• Present strategies and tools for the strategic application of ICT to communities.
• Participate and coordinate events with international community networks, local and national governments and share what we have learned with other networks.
• Host web services for schools, communities and local businesses.

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) can make a difference in reducing pov­erty and in contributing to reaching the Millen­nium Development Goals (MDGs). The pioneer of appropriate technology, E.F. Schumacher, said many years ago: "The gift of material goods makes people dependent. The gift of knowledge makes them free". Practical experience, as well as the lessons learned around the globe, dem­onstrates the great potential of ICTs for enhanc­ing empowerment, opportunity and security. This potential, however, contrasts with the relatively modest impact attributed to ICT as a general ena­bler in reaching the MDGs.

Untapped opportunities exist to multiply and scale up successful pilot projects and approaches, by harnessing ICT's potential for dynamic knowl­edge sharing and networking, building on econ­omies of scale, and drawing on a broad range of approaches that can be used as a catalyst for local adaptation. Up-scaling poverty reduction with ICT means increasing outreach and deepen­ing impact (Richard Gerster & Sonja Zimmarmann. Up-scaling_Pro-Poor_ICT-Policies__Practices, p6 )