The Not So World Wide Web: the Internet Digital Divide

source: Statista

The chart above shows how many people use the internet in all the different world regions.

25 years ago, on August 23, 1991, a British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, who was then working at CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research), made the World Wide Web available to the public. However, even 25 years after what some call its inception, the World Wide Web is not nearly as universally available as its name suggests. According to the latest estimates by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a UN agency specializing in information and communication technologies, only 47 in 100 people in the world use the internet today. While internet access in regions such as North America and Europe has become a utility like electricity and running water, people in less developed regions often still lack affordable access to what has arguably become the world's most important source of information.

See also on Domain Mondo: More Than Half The World’s Population Still Not Using The Internet

ICT Facts and Figures 2016 (pdf) embedded below (note: LDC - Least Developed Countries):


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Internet In Cuba: Hope And Yearning For An Object Of Desire

Internet In Cuba: Hope And Yearning For An Object Of Desire

"....What you quickly find out here in Cuba is that the Internet has become an object of desire: something as rare and valuable as strawberries that everybody wants. By any measure, Cuba's Internet penetration rate is dismal. The government says that about 25 percent of Cubans have access to the Internet. But Freedom House, a watchdog that promotes freedom globally, says that number refers to Cubans who have access to a government-run intranet. According to Freedom House's experts, only about 5 percent of Cubans have access to the open Internet. That's why Facebook and the World Wide Web have become a kind of promised land. As we walk through G Street, we notice that many of the kids clutch smartphones. Out here, they're essentially useless, because the only real way to get on a Wi-Fi network is to pay $5 an hour at a tourist hotel...." (read more here)


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Future of the Web, W3C20 Event LIVE, Tim Berners-Lee

W3C20 Anniversary Symposium "Future of the Web" LIVE from Santa Clara, California 
Wed 29 Oct 2014 3:00-6:00 PM PDT (US) Time Conversion

Program:
3:00–3:05 pm Welcome and Introductions: Jeff Jaffe, W3C CEO

3:05–5:05 pm Featured Speakers:
Vint Cerf - A Long Term View of the World Wide Web
David-Michel Davies - Forging the Big and Beautiful Web
Anders Wahlquist - Stories Empower, and We Power Stories
Di-Ann Eisnor - Solving Problems Together: Beyond Crowdsourcing toward Mass Participation
Moh Haghighat - Bringing the Full Power of Modern Hardware to the Open Web Platform
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland - Toward A Sustainable Digital Ecology
Sue Gardner - Love the Mess: Keeping a Human Perspective on Massively Collaborative Systems
Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel - Access for All

5:05–5:40 pm Panel and Discussion: “The Future of the Web and How it is Run”
Lee Rainie (Moderator)
Fadi Chehadé
Jun Murai
Darren Walker

5:40–6:00 pm Closing Talk: Tim Berners-Lee, Web Inventor and W3C Director

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World Wide Web inventor slams Internet fast lanes: ‘It’s bribery.’ http://t.co/7UHho9qBKq via @washingtonpost
— Domain Mondo (@DomainMondo) September 26, 2014

see also: webat25.org

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History of Computers, Internet, World Wide Web (ITU videos)

ITU (International Telecommunication Union) traces its history to 1865 when the International Telegraph Union was founded. In 1947 the ITU, under an agreement with the newly created United Nations, became the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies – ICTs. The ITU Plenipotentiary Conference, is being held in Busan, Republic of Korea, from 20 October - 7 November 2014. More information at expvc.com: ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2014. Below are three videos produced by the ITU.

Lord Byron wasn't the only incredible writer in his family--his daughter Ava Lovelace actually wrote the algorithm that would become known as the world's first computer program. This is just one of many interesting facts that come to the forefront in this video about the first hundred years of computing. Below: ITU videos about the Internet and the World Wide Web.


 A video about the history of the Internet.


This short video provides the perfect introduction to the history of the World Wide Web and explains how it got to the stage it is at today.


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