Firstly, sorry for the long absence. Didn't realize how quickly the weeks went. I will be off to Sweden (Uppsala University) tomorrow for 4 days.
Anyways, here is the reason for the post. I just read on the Google Blog today that the World Bank has opened up its data APIs, and since you know how I love debate based on facts rather than guesses, I figured I'll give it a spin.
And here is some interesting data for you all to see
[Internet accessibility per capita, USA, World, Pakistan, and India]
You can play with this data yourself here.
So, what say?
Saturday, November 14, 2009
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OMG! I just got back and you're leaving!!!! Have a great time and stay WARM~~~ Leese
ReplyDeleteOnly 20% of the people of the world access the internet. Rest 80% dont use it - primarily because they are illiterate or cannot afford a computer.
ReplyDeleteSpoken Web at IBM is about bringing information for them on Voice on normal mobile phones.
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_people.nsf/pages/arun_kumar.WWTW.html
In India, about 5% of the people use internet but more than 50% have mobile phones (and growing fast)
I say..sure India is below the US but the US isn't dominant by far :) http://bitly/4eXT though shdn't we be? ;)
ReplyDeleteI had to check on France which was around 48%. Canada was a couple of percentage points higher than the US.
ReplyDelete@bdev - your link doesn't work
@Leese: I am back now :)
ReplyDelete@Anupam: I agree about the phone internet thing. In fact, I am keen to see what the graph looks like in 2009 and 2010.
@bdev: Define the rationale behind "should" :)
@starman: Try http://bit.ly/4eXT.
@animesh. cuz clearly we're the best ;)
ReplyDelete@starman sorry about that..how about this: bit.ly/404fik
Ever thought that Internet Or Computer is not really a personal thing for lot of Indians, especially Indian families, where 2-6 members share 1-2 computers.
ReplyDeleteI will take that data with a pinch of salt.
Pankaj: You have a point, but the same is true even in the US and Europe (the "home internet connection" is a shared resource). And I am sure that the survey question would not have been "do you have a PC?".
ReplyDeleteI would like to think that the data was collected by a survey using questions such as "do you have access to the internet?". But then, I could not find the details on the exact method used.
@bdev - the new link worked fine. I found it quite interesting that there are so many countries ahead of the US.
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