Re: [ga] Since nobody in authority wants to announce it...

[Izumi AIZU <izumi@anr.org>]

My one sentence comment:  We need good balance.

According to NUA Internet survey, and my additional calculation as follows:

Region          Internet Users   Population     User penetration (%) 
                (M)             (100M)
North America   112.40          303             37.1
Europe          47.15           728             6.5
Asia Pacific    33.61           3,451           0.97
Latin America   5.29            512             1.03
Africa          1.72            771             0.22
Middle East     0.88            186             0.47
Total           201.00          5,951           100

Source:
www.nua.ie/surveys/how_many_online/index.html

'user' is those who have used Internet more than once over the past 3 month

and

1999 World Population Data Sheet and Book Edition
www.prb.org/pubs/wpds99/wpds99a.htm



At 22:32 1999/10/26 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 01:34:07PM +0900, Kilnam Chon wrote:
> > here is the total picture of ICANN BoD geographical distribution;
> > 
> >     Interim DNSO    ASO     PSO     President       Total
> > 
> > NA  4       1       1       1       1               8
> > EU  3+1     1       1       2                       7+1
> > AP  2-1     0       1       0                       3-1
> > LAC 0       1       0       0                       1
> > Africa  0   0       0       0                       0
> > 
> > Remark:  one of Interim BoD in AP may hold citizenship of an European 
> >      country.  if so, we have to add one to Europe and subtract one 
> >      from AP according to the current ICANN bylaws.
> 
> On a percentage basis:
> 
> NA      42%
> EU      37%
> AP      16%
> LA       5%
> AF       0%
> 
> if I did the arithmetic correctly.  Just out of curiosity, how does
> this compare with relative number of internet users in each region?
> Note that I am not arguing for proportional representation -- I just
> find the distribution interesting...
> 
> -- 
> Kent Crispin                               "Do good, and you'll be
> kent@songbird.com                           lonesome." -- Mark Twain
>   
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               Izumi Aizu  <izumi@anr.org> 
  
   Principal, Asia Network Research (Malaysia)
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 Sec. General, Asia & Pacific Internet Association
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