It ’s astonishingly easy for us to become so enraptured with our own comfortable microcosm that we altogether lose sight of how absolutely minuscule our little box of the profit actually is . This map by the Information Geographies project at the Oxford Internet Institute should put things back into perspective .
Taking 2011 information on both a country ’s cyberspace users and total population from the World Bank , this map actually presents us with two different bits of cognition . The countries themselves are scale up and down , depending on how much of the entire internet population they ’re check . The colouring material of the country , however , remains parochial — the darker the red , the high the percentage of that rural area ’s population that ’s on-line .
So in places like China , which vaunt a immense act of internet users mostly due to the fact that it has a massive universe in general , the percent of citizen actually on the internet is way lower than some European countries . One affair this map does n’t show us , however , is how quickly these res publica are grow . Information Geographies note in their findings :
Some African countries have seen staggering growth , whereas other have seen little alteration since we last mappedInternet use globally in 2008 . In the last three years , almost all North African state doubled their universe of Internet drug user ( Algeria being a notable exception ) . Kenya , Nigeria , and South Africa , also saw massive growth . However , it remains that over one-half of Sub - Saharan African countries have an cyberspace insight of less than 10 % , and have seen very little grow in late years .
Still , all the the great unwashed present in the function only adequate about one - third of Earth ’s spherical universe . So for the majority of the human race , there is still a very , very long means to go . [ data GeographiesviaThe Atlantic ]
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