Access to the Internet in Iraq is strictly controlled and granted to a select privileged few. The access they do enjoy is heavily censored. The current bandwidth available to the entire country of Iraq is only slightly quicker than that enjoyed by a single average US or European company.

The newly rebuilt Iraq will demand providers of a full range of industry solutions and other e-business products, with considerable demand expected for office software, security systems, multimedia, desktop publishing (DTP), information management, mobile computing and multilingual software.