Greece has launched a multimedia campaign designed to close the digital gap with the rest of the EU by 2009. Known as Digital Greece, it will, say local reports, last 15 months and receive its funding – put at €4 million – from the EU-subsidised Information Society programme. Although the take up of broadband Internet is growing rapidly in Greece, the penetration (4.6 per 100 of the population as of the end of 2006, according to the OECD) is one of the lowest in Europe as a whole, let alone the EU. At the other end of the scale, Denmark (31.9%), Netherlands (31.8%) and Iceland (29.7%) occupied the top three slots at the end of 2006.
