Nobody can deny that today the Internet is fully consolidated worldwide nor that the web has changed the world. All of us, this includes you and me, are very fortunate individuals because we are living the most wonderful moment of humanity. Everything in the world is changing for the better, thanks to the advances and the daily developments of technology. There are more opportunities for progress, at all levels, than ever before for everyone.
Solid facts confirm that we are living in the Global Village predicted and coined in the 1950s by Marshall McLuhan. The "Social Web" can be considered, in our opinion, a consequence and a necessity of the "Global Village". More and more people join the global village everyday. Approximately one out of every three persons in the world already is inside the global village, and one out of every seven persons in the world is inside the social web.
In the last century literacy was considered the ability to write and read. However, today in the 21st century, literacy should have a much broader scope and include "digital literacy", the ability to use a computer and to surf the Internet. Most Governments understand this and offer free online training. In the USA, for example, this is the destination to go for digital literacy resources.
Miniwatts Marketing Group have analyzed the number of Internet users worldwide and the results as of March 31, 2012 according to the number of users and posted the results in a table and three graphs available at top 20 Internet countries and posted below.
The results are not really a surprise to anyone. The countries with the largest populations are at the top of the list. By world regions, Asia is in first place represented by eight countries, followed by Europe represented by seven countries. However, please keep in mind that these stats do not represent a competition between countries and that their purpose is simply to show the global growth of the Internet.
Sourced from Enrique de Argaez, CEO, Miniwatts Marketing Group, Miniwatts de Colombia Ltda. www.internetworldstats.com
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