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Though it's tough to nail down exact numbers, here are some recent stats:
| WORLD INTERNET USAGE AND POPULATION STATISTICS - March 10, 2007 |
Africa |
933,448,292 |
14.2 % |
33,334,800 |
3.6 % |
3.0 % |
638.4 % |
Asia |
3,712,527,624 |
56.5 % |
398,709,065 |
10.7 % |
35.8 % |
248.8 % |
Europe |
809,624,686 |
12.3 % |
314,792,225 |
38.9 % |
28.3% |
199.5 % |
Middle East |
193,452,727 |
2.9 % |
19,424,700 |
10.0 % |
1.7 % |
491.4 % |
North America |
334,538,018 |
5.1 % |
233,188,086 |
69.7 % |
20.9% |
115.7 % |
Latin Amer/Caribbean |
556,606,627 |
8.5 % |
96,386,009 |
17.3 % |
8.7 % |
433.4 % |
Oceania / Australia |
34,468,443 |
0.5 % |
18,439,541 |
53.5 % |
1.7 % |
142.0 % |
WORLD TOTAL |
6,574,666,417 |
100.0 % |
1,114,274,426 |
16.9 % |
100.0 % |
208.7 % |
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Worldwide Active Internet Home Users, March 2007 |
Country |
February 2007 |
March 2007 |
Growth (%) |
Difference |
Australia |
10,803,199 |
10,840,450 |
0.34 |
37,251 |
Brazil |
14,068,257 |
16,257,348 |
15.56 |
2,189,091 |
France |
21,546,565 |
21,528,789 |
-0.08 |
-17,776 |
Germany |
33,035,325 |
32,757,877 |
-0.84 |
-277,448 |
Italy |
17,900,166 |
18,220,139 |
1.79 |
319,973 |
Japan |
44,738,950 |
45,774,229 |
2.31 |
1,035,279 |
Spain |
12,704,828 |
13,196,513 |
3.87 |
491,685 |
Switzerland |
3,718,731 |
3,765,304 |
1.25 |
46,573 |
U. K. |
24,514,132 |
24,683,762 |
0.69 |
169,630 |
U. S. |
144,805,311 |
146,817,112 |
1.39 |
2,011,801 |
Total |
327,835,464 |
333,841,523 |
1.83 |
6,006,059 |
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The Internet continues to turn entire industries on their heads - completely changing the rules of the game. It continues to level the playing field and create online-based exchanges -- matching suppliers with consumers. The music industry is a good example, where now, the iTunes Music Store has changed the music distribution/marketing game. How people consume entertainment is changing as well, due to the next topic.
Convergence -- telecommunications, computing, networking, entertainment and other industries continue to converge. Higher ed can benefit from this convergence. Just a handful of the interesting items here include:
Social networking is booming; users are creating and submitting their own content; and the Web continues to be the great leveler in terms of playing fields. See:
How people find/categorize information is changing. For example, tagging is now very popular:
Hot technologies:
- Podcasting is booming
- The usage of blogs and wikis continues to increase
- Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds give you the information you want, when you want it, and in the manner you wish to receive it
- Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) is changing the game within the telecom industries
- See:
The web is going more mobile:
How software is being used/distributed is changing, moving away from CD-based installations to web-enabled services and applications.
- Google is leading the way here. Will Goolge's products eventually replace the need for owning Microsoft Office? Or will Microsoft change their software distribution models as well?
- See also: telepark
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