Val Souza's insightful article, "Who’s afraid of the digital divide?" includes one of the best descriptions of the term digital leafrog that I have seen in print. First of all, let's not confuse this concept with the products available from LeapFrog, the company...although they have some pretty cool educational software. Digital Leapfroging is a pattern that seems to be surfacing more and more in middle-income and lower-income countries where ICT services are expanding at a faster rate than rich(er) countries and where the people in the middle and lower income countries tend to share telephones, computers, and internet accounts at a high(er) rate. The resulting level of the use of technology may be higher than traditional survey/measurement systems could identify, thus the implication that the Digital Divide in these countries may be closer to being spanned, or leapfrogged, than published statistics seem to indicate.
I may have to revisit my thinking on epiphanic opportunists, there are certainly connections to what is happening with digital leapfrogging.