  It is increasingly important to support the large numbers of scientists
working in remote areas and having low -bandwidth access to the Internet. This
will continue to be the case for years to come since there is evidence from
PingER performance measurements that the, so-called, digital divide is not
decreasing. In this work, we review the collaborative work of The Abdus Salam
International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste -a leading
organization promoting science dissemination in the developing world- and SLAC
in Stanford, to monitor by PingER, Universities and Research Institutions all
over the developing world following the recent Recommendations of Trieste to
help bridge the digital divide. As a result, PingER's deployment now covers the
real-time monitoring of worldwide Internet performance and, in particular, West
and Central Africa for the first time. We report on theresults from the ICTP
sites and quantitatively identify regions with poor performance, identify
trends, discuss experiences and future work.
