DFID provided core funding to APC through the Building Communication Opportunities (BCO) alliance from 2005 to 2007.
Their funding of the Catalysing Access to ICTs in Africa (CATIA) Component 1c projects in 2004, 2005 and 2006 was innovative and has seen key results in ICT policy advocacy in several African nations, as well as sparking the CICEWA and CI-LAC initiatives in East and West Africa and Andean South America respectively.
In 2005 DFID funded ItrainOnline and in 2002, 2003 and 2004 supported the Gender and ICT Evaluation Methodology (GEM).