2 Billion People Expected Online by End of 2010
24 October 2010
Nigerians use the internet at a cybercafe in Lagos, Nigeria
This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, formerly called the Development Report.
Before we changed the name, we went on our Facebook page and asked for story ideas. Some of you suggested that we talk about ICT, information and communication technology.
Well, the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency, released its latest ICT Facts and Figures report last week.
Since two thousand five, the number of Internet users worldwide has doubled to more than one and a half billion people. At least two billion are expected to be online by the end of this year.
The ITU says more than seventy percent of new Internet users this year will be in developing countries. Still, only twenty-one percent of the population of the developing world is online -- compared to seventy-one percent in developed countries.
Susan Teltscher is head of the agency's Market Information and Statistics Division in Switzerland.
SUSAN TELTSCHER: "There are still very huge divides when it comes to accessing the Internet, especially high-speed Internet. In developing countries, you have only one out of five people using the Internet. If we look at certain regions like in Africa, for example, the figures are even lower. In Africa we have not even ten percent of the population using the internet."
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