Only a quarter of the country's
population has access to the Internet, so if you're trying to sell an affordable smartphone for the common man, then it better be sold where he buys it from — Retail stores.
While the expansion of cyberspace continues at breakneck speed, one tends to forget that, overall, less than 5 percent of the world's
population has access to the Internet.
Already nearly 20 % of the world's
population has access to internet dating sites — no wonder it is an increasingly popular way to meet new people.
To a large extent, the crisis has been experienced through and on digital platforms — which tells us something about the discontents, since more than 40 % of Brazilian
population has no access to the internet.
With this new tie up with Unilever, Facebook is trying to expand its reach in a country where the social network has more than 93 million users and at the same time where only 13 percent of
the population has access to Internet.
Not exact matches
As many developed countries
have brought almost their entire
populations online, Google is keen
to help connect the future of its
Internet users who lack
access to the
Internet.
Google's inability
to access China's large
population of young, tech - savvy
internet users poses a challenge for the firm whose search engine
has expanded
to become the world's largest and most ubiquitous.
Mobile Vaani estimates that roughly 65 percent of the poorly - literate / low - income
population in India is unlikely
to have access to the
internet in the next decade, but 40 percent of those already
have access to mobile phones.
Project Loon was first incubated by the experimental Google X division in 2011, but was officially announced in June 2013 with a remit
to help bring the
internet to the two thirds of the world's
population who still don't
have access.
According
to eMarketer, only 29 % of Indonesians
have access to the
internet and connection speeds are slow, largely thanks
to challenging geography and a thinly spread
population of around 255 million people, which makes it expensive
to build a network using underwater cables.
This is especially critical in a country with high
internet speeds, and where almost 90 % of the
population has access to a mobile phone.
In this vast swathe of Yemen where only 3 percent of the
population had ever
accessed the
internet, I was sorry
to disappoint (no chance of sneaking a peek at Wikipedia here).
According
to Thalib, «After 3 years in operation, Setipe
has gained impressive traction and growth but for us
to monetise effectively, Indonesia still requires strong offline services due
to low credit card penetration rates and less than half the
population having Internet access.
So, the
populations that are most likely
to have met their future spouse online are the same
populations that, according this paper, saw no increase in marriage rates when
access to the
Internet increased.
Thalib said: «After 3 years in operation, Setipe
has gained impressive traction and growth but for us
to monetise effectively, Indonesia still requires strong offline services due
to low credit card penetration rates and less than half the
population having Internet access.
The site
has expanded rapidly and now
has 15 million members - some 50 % of the adult
population with
access to the
Internet - after moving into areas such as Genes Reunited, a site that allows people
to trace their family tree.
The relevant research reveals that in most cases people who
have a small social circle use
internet dating so that they could get an
access to different
population groups and nationalities.
Based on Pew Research data from 2011, it was apparent that, while many previously marginalized
populations now
had more
access to the
Internet, these
populations were
accessing the
Internet mostly through mobile devices, which are limiting, especially when trying
to build and create online or
access job applications or opportunities.
In a country where only 27 % of the
population is reported
to have internet access forcing newspaper
to be strictly digital will mean a significant portion of the
population will be cutoff from news
access and more importantly, a clear picture of the activities of their government.
The study, which covers a nationally representative
population of 2,400 respondents who are 8
to 64 years old and
have access to the
Internet, also found that Apple's iPad still dominates the tablet market with 54 % of all tablets.
IDC suggested the total number of worldwide
Internet users will grow from 2 billion in 2010
to 2.7 billion in 2015, when IDC predicts 40 % of the global
population will
have access to the
Internet.
At the societal level, over the last few years regimes in many countries
have been finding out the best way
to turn a localised insurgency into a full - scale revolution is
to deny their
populations access to the
internet, something which didn't even exist a generation ago.
It's a tough time
to be a gamer in Vietnam right now, as the Ministry of Information and Communication
has ordered all
Internet Service Providers
to block
access to online games between 10PM and 8AM in an effort
to control the
population's reliance on the service.
Access to the
Internet is relentlessly marching across the global
population, and (almost) everyone will
have a computer in their hand at all times, at some point.
To make matters worse, in many of those counties, public transportation and internet access are sparse, and a significant percentage of the population doesn't even have access to a vehicl
To make matters worse, in many of those counties, public transportation and
internet access are sparse, and a significant percentage of the
population doesn't even
have access to a vehicl
to a vehicle.
Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the
internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts
to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives
have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as
to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges
to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies
have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues
to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried
to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford
to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them
to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as
to be able
to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public
access the law society website they don't see any reference
to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able
to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the
population must be able
to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.
According
to the Associated Press, Schmidt referenced
to data that shows less than one third of the world's
population (2 billion people)
has Internet access.
Around 1 percent of the country's near - 50 million
population has Internet access and — though tech companies are beginning
to enter — adoption of mobile devices remains very low.
So, the
populations that are most likely
to have met their future spouse online are the same
populations that, according this paper, saw no increase in marriage rates when
access to the
Internet increased.
Internet - delivered CBT programs
have considerable potential for improving
access to evidence - based treatments for culturally and linguistically diverse
populations.
Almost half the
population of the planet now
has access to the
internet, with about one in three of those people regularly active on social media.
This is simply because our
population is more financially educated and
has more
access to marketing avenues,
internet & education.