Following an initiative of the World Agency for Digital Solidarity (based on "Ordi 2.0") and the city of Segrate, Italy, in 2009 and 2010, the network will be also dedicated to an issue that has been a key issue for the GCD since the very beginning and became one of its main targets in the 2003 General Assembly Meeting in Bologna, Italy.

The headline "From Digital Divide to Digital Solidarity" summarizes all activities, aiming at providing equal access to new Information and Communication Technologies all over the world.

The association aims at reducing the gap between people with easy access to the ICT and those with very limited or no access at all. The members commit themselves to both ameliorate the physical access to the ICT and supporte the acquisition of the necessary skills allowing a relevant use of the infrastructure. Concretely, the GCD work in this field consists in organizing technology and knowledge transfers.

Member cities from Europe for instance collect computer and IT related accessories, recycle them before shipping them to areas where they are most needed. A bilateral partnership between the city of Segrate (Italy) and the city of Rufisque (Senegal) is currently running to provide the latter city with the necessary technological infrastructure for an optimal Internet access.

With regard to building up ICT skills, the GCD members also engage themselves to help people who have low or no competences in this field by promoting IT workshops. International multilateral projects are further being developed to constantly increase the number of people benefiting from such activities. It’s worth to notice that such efforts are also directed towards people from richer countries (from the North) but belonging to social groups at risk of being excluded from the Information Society. That is the reason why member cities implement similar actions for the benefit of their own citizens.