As computer ownership and Internet usage reaches a saturation point throughout the world, the personals industry will reach a state of equilibrium and growth will maintain at a regular annual rate.
Although data from a faculty survey revealed 100 %
computer ownership for 5 years or more, actual instructional computer use in the classroom dropped dramatically.
This interesting graph from the 2009 «Pocket World in Figures» shows the level
of computer ownership per person worldwide.
E-reader ownership doubled between November 2010 and May 2011 to 12 percent while the
tablet computer ownership grew from five percent in November to eight percent in May, Pew said.
According to him, «the idea was to provide affordable access to ICT tools and processes which, among other things, promoted the digital re-tooling of individuals, institutions and corporate entities as well as the launch of the
first computer ownership scheme in Nigeria.
Estimates from regressions with detailed controls, nearest - neighbor models, and propensity score models all indicate large, positive, and statistically significant relationships
between computer ownership and earnings and employment, in sharp contrast to the null effects of our experiment.
The Tech Goes Home program not only teaches families computer literacy, but it also
puts computer ownership within their reach.
More
on Computer Ownership and Use: How to Go Green: Gadgets Computer Addiction Not Rational, Sustainable How To: Build a Green (er) Computer
Many urban centres lag the national average; Yellowknife has among the highest rate
of computer ownership.
I think this points to
computer ownership being an affordability issue.