BRACNet is BangladeshÕs premier one-stop ICT (Information & Communication Technology) solution provider. Established in 1996 as BRACÕs IT/ISP wing, it later formed a Joint Venture company with US investors gNet/DEFTA Partners in 2005. Attracted by its pioneering social business model and by the potential to replicate it around the globe, KDDI Ð the second largest cellular operator and Wireless ISP in Japan, entered in to a partnership with BRACNet recently to buy a 50% stake in the company in 2009. At present, BRACNet is providing its broadband internet and intranet (data) services to 64 districts of the country. BRACNet serves tens of thousands of residential customers directly or indirectly (through resellers) and numerous rural people through its cybercafŽ franchises, called E-huts. For the first time in Bangladesh, the perennially poor can now avail the various services available online to improve their quality of life. BRACNetÕs core mission is to create a knowledge based society in Bangladesh. As broadband internet is only one component of a larger echo-system that must be built and nurtured in order to turn the country in to an ICT powerhouse, BRACNet is working relentlessly to that end.