This chapter explores the options policy-makers have for fostering and supporting “multipurpose community telecentres” (MCTs) as key resources for community access to basic and advanced ICT services. The concept of community-based telecentres has recently gained widespread attention as a strategic response to the chronic lack of access to information and communication technologies and services in the developing world. While telecentres are not an entirely new idea, there is currently a strong emphasis on this policy option, which may offer an encouraging approach to overcoming the wide disparities of access in the Information Age. MCTs represent an opportunity to enable societies and historically disadvantaged regions and populations to participate more fully in local, national and global social and economic life.