There is a race to connect the next billion people worldwide and one of the main arenas where it is being played out is Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa.
In the West African nation, home to more than 140m people, humanitarian efforts rub shoulders with commercial schemes to bridge the digital divide.
The Ministry of Education is currently evaluating schemes from Microsoft, Intel and the One Laptop per Child group to give the country's 30 million school-aged children access to computers.
Although no decision has been made about which, if any, it will buy into on a large scale, some schemes are already starting to move ahead.
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