IT in Palestine has been through a lot of changes in the last few years. For an introduction to the situation, see:

• The Past and Future of Information Technology in Palestine: An introduction for the Palestinian NGO community, a paper prepared for the International NGO Meeting/European NGO Symposium on the Question of Palestine at the United Nations, 25-28 August 1997 by Nigel Parry, Birzeit University Webmaster.
  
  
• Industry needs assessment (West Bank and Gaza): Software/Information Technology/Data Processing, by the Center for Private Enterprise Development, Ramallah.August 1st, 1996.
  
  
• Status of Information Technology in Palestine: by Marwan Tarazi Director of the IT Unit, Birzeit University.October, 1997.
  
  

• Information Infrastructure and Technology Status inWest Bank and Gaza: This is a preliminary draft based on mission discussions from August 18th to August 27th with Palestinians from the PNA, academia, NGOs, international agencies and private sector. It is also based on reviewing several documents and published papers. By Hanan Askalan. Sept 10th,1996.

• Initial Exploitation for the Development of High Technology (Computer Industries in Palestine): Selected chapters from The study. By the Univesity of Florida. Sept, 1996.

• Developing a Palestinian Internet Backbone: brief analysis and recomendations for the palestinian telecomunications company july,1998.

• The current status of PalTel and the Palestinian
  telephone network summary of the topics covered in the meeting between MR. Nael Assa'dhead of the data comunication departmentat the palestinian telecomunication company, and the members of the ITSIG. August 13th, 1997.

• Status and Future Telecommunications and Data
  Networks in Palestine March 1996.

• Birzeit University's Complete Guide to Palestine's Websites