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

[TOM GABLE <tomg@gablegroup.com>]

At 08:17 AM 10/27/1999 -0700, Kent Crispin wrote:
>On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 04:15:37PM +0800, Izumi AIZU wrote:
> > 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

There was a story on Page 77 of the Oct. 4 issue of Business Week that 
projected the number of regular Internet users by yearend 2000:

Region       Millions                 Per 1,000
                     of people               population

North Am.    148.7                      479.1
W. Eur.           86.6                       217.5
Asia-Pac         57.6                         16.6
South and
Central Am.     10.8                         21.1
E. Eur.                9.5                          32.7
Mid.East
and Africa         7.5                           7.2

Several world organizations are attempting to jump-start technology in some 
of these regions in hopes of having positive socio-economic impacts.   This 
would seem to argue for giving them an official voice in the democracy of 
the Internet.

Best,
Tom

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