TRIVIA
More than half (57%) of Internet
users are from the USA despite making up just 4.7% of the world population.
UN Secretary General Kofi Anan
warned of the danger of excluding the world's poor from the information
revolution: "People lack many things: jobs, shelter, food, health care
and drinkable water. Today, being cut off from basic telecommunications
services is a hardship almost as acute as these other deprivations, and
may indeed reduce the chances of finding remedies to them," he said.
BBC
Special Report on the Digital Divide |
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