The development of the Internet has caused massive changes in global communications and the proliferation of knowledge, particularly since its rapid rise in the 1990s. His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV discussed the AKDN’s pioneering uses of information technologies to enhance their development work in the areas of culture, health care, and education in this speech at the World Bank InfoDev Conference on 10 November 1999 in Washington, D.C., USA.