The EM world isn’t that connected | beyondbrics

The EM world isn’t that connected | beyondbrics: "A brief reminder from ITU, the UN’s telecoms agency, that for all the talk about the global internet, and how emerging economies are getting online, there is still a huge gap between the developed and developing world when it comes to internet usage.

There are still 4.4bn people not online, according to the ITU’s Measuring the Information Society report. And despite the efforts to get people connected, there are still two huge obstacles.

As the report says, there are 1.1bn households worldwide that are not yet connected to the internet, and 90 per cent of these are in the developing world.

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