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**The Digital Divide **
== … while North America holds 6% of the world population and 41% have on-line access to the Internet, less than 1% of the African population, which is 10% of the world’s population, has the same. Furthermore, the 29 OECD states contain 97% of all Internet hosts, 92% of the market in production and consumption of IT hardware, software and services, and 86% of all Internet users. … (Paraphrased in Unesco 2005:7) ==



http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-2.html?lang-search=&x=10&y=9 Firefox is available in 55 languages

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[|Three new fiber-optic cables to East Africa] Population of Africa, 945 million; # of Internet users, 54 million; ratio (user:population) 1:19; number of fiber-optic cables, 10; ratio (cable: population) 1: 94.5 million people Population of Bangladesh, 150 milion; number of fiber-optic cables, 3; ratio (cable:population) 1: 50 million people

De nouveaux rapports de forces internationaux (article tiré de l'Atlas 2009-Monde Diplomatique)