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Re: [ga] Since nobody in authority wants to announce it...
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
The last column won't sum to 100%, however -- that particular total
wouldn't be meaningful, anyway. But the other numbers do illustrate
the realities very nicely, and thank you for finding them.
Returning to my original comparision:
Internet % Physical %
population % directors population % penetration
NA 112 56 42 303 5 37.1
EU 47 23 37 728 12 6.5
AP 34 17 16 3,451 58 1.0
LA 5 2.5 5 512 8 1.0
AF 2 1.0 0 771 13 0.2
ME 1 0.5 (0) 186 3 0.5
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201 100 5951 99
Another way to think about it would be "investment in internet
infrastructure per region, or maybe "investment per individual in
internet infrastructure" or even "investment per individual relative
to average GDP".
Maybe we should compare them by surface area? :-)
The bottom line is, of course, that this is a complicated problem,
and there is clearly no perfect solution.
--
Kent Crispin "Do good, and you'll be
kent@songbird.com lonesome." -- Mark Twain