Monday, 20 February 2012

Unequal Access Around The World

As ICT has came along way and made an dramatic impact on our country other countries have not had such luxuries, there are still many countries that are in the dark ages of the world of technology. Even though due to satellite based internet virtually any country is available to access internet some just simply cannot afford to such as third world countries (e.g. Somalia, Burundi), others can but are restricted by their governments, North Korea only have a few hundred thousand citizens that have access to the internet (this means only 4% of the population have internet access) everything is government controlled which means social networking and sites such as blogs are not allowed. In Latin America, Cuba has the lowest ratio of computers and the lowest internet access, if citizens wanted to use PC's they would have to go to government controlled internet cafe's where all their activity is monitored and only government are allowed to upload to the internet.

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