According to the survey done in 2001 by National Computer Board in Mauritius 83.3% of business surveyed owned a Computer. These businesses employed 10 or more employees and were established before 1990. In the survey 37.3% of establishment owned up to 3 servers and 24.3% owned up to 3 PC. Twenty percentage businesses owned 20 or more PC's. 43% of business in survey has LAN and 12.7 has WAN whereas 90% have access to internet. There are about 11.5 PC per 100 inhabitants. [1]

According to the 2001 survey 72.7% of public administration use internet and 63.2% use internet in education and training sector. Electronic Transaction site use is about 17% and 21.3% have established website and only 1/3 of those companies host their own sites. Companies are promoting their e-commerce for purpose of trading. For example, 25.8% use internet to get in contact with Suppliers and 8% purchase good online and only 3.6% sell products online.

Mauritius Government has long recognized importance of ICT and has established five agencies in late 80's. Collaborative effort over the years by these agencies have created ICT infrastructure for business today. One of the project initiative started in late 80's was to computerize ministries and government departments. The total cost for the project over 12 years is $22 million and is estimated to grow another $5 million over next two years.

With 43,000 computers in government sector in 2003 about 2600 government official owned an email account and about 40% of government workers were trained on office automation application.

Majority of the government agency and departments have the website providing information and downloads. With about 90% department agencies own and operated multi user departmental system. For example, Client-Server application to process transaction internally rather then using Ledger books and other means of manual work.  

Mauritius accounts for 95% of total internet user uses dial up and about 4% uses DSL lines in 2002. Moreover Government has plans to become an information society and targets to gets ADSL to at least 10% of land lines by 2005. Furthermore government wants to become a Cyber island thus top-level commitment by funding ICT initiative and building the economy.  For example, construction of Cyber City, Cyber Tower completed in 2004 and Business Parks development.

  In addition to the growth in ownership PC and internet usage there is potential to Internet Café and other facilities providing internet connection. There are about 30 Internet Café in Mauritius and government also has plans to add internet service at all 100 location of the post office to increase the availability of internet within the country for people who cannot afford to own a PC.