In 1996, Wresch wrote that “the poor are excluded from much of the world’s information and no one has even begun to outline a solution to the problem” (1996:58). This literature review will reveal whether his sentiments are still true today. In his view, one of the biggest ironies of the information age is that the rich get their information almost free, while the poor have to pay dearly for it, in the case for instance of the price poor people have to pay to make a simple telephone call. The notion of exclusion is thus an important consideration in some of the literature in this review.