International ICFA Workshop on Digital Divide Issues for Global e-Science
 
Introduction The major high energy physics experiments in operation today and those of the next generation face daunting technological challenges associated with the need to acquire, process and analyze unprecedented quantities of data.  But the principal challenge facing our field is that of global collaboration.  HEP has had a remarkable tradition of success in global collaboration on accelerators, detectors and communications in physics.  In this information era the field is, on the contrary, experiencing difficulties in providing equal access to the data.  Scientists from all regions must be able to access and analyze the data, and above all be able to collaborate effectively with their peers around the world, including when they are at their home institutions.