http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4351887.stm

Digital tax to aid poor nations

President Wade of Senegal has led the campaign for the fund
A plan for wealthy nations to contribute a digital tax to provide hi-tech
tools for poor nations has been officially launched in Geneva.
The idea is the brainchild of Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade and Geneva
is the first city to sign up.

It plans to contribute 1% of the profit companies make on public technology
projects to the fund.

Dubbed the Digital Solidarity Fund, the digital tax has the backing of
France, Nigeria, Algeria and Senegal.

Not Me wrote:

Now, *there's* a "Who's Who" of internationally-influential nations.
This has about as good a chance of being adopted by wealthy western
nations as a Catholic fund-drive in support of stem-cell research.
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That? That would be the sound of corporate headquarters leaving
Switzerland and France.