The digital divide can be ameliorated if development piggybacks on what an existing polity considers good. If a polity values spiritual purity rather than democracy, attach the work to spiritual purity. If it values social harmony — I am not thinking of any particular polity — attach it to social harmony. If a polity says aliens, immigrants or people unlike “us” cause every problem, connect instead to the big umbrella of faith communities, families, working people, solidarity and churchgoers. These are sometimes compromises, but they let the civic approach reach places the democratic wave cannot.