In the coming future, the growing disparity between the developing democracies of the world’s level of internet use and the rest of the world’s is going to increase to a staggering level. 97 Percent of the worlds Internet use is contained to the developing democracies of the world, including the United Kingdom, United States, and Japan. (Norris, 1) The rest of the 3 percent of the world live without the advantages in technology that the small percentage have, the internet alone provides an arena for global government and nongovernment organizations to communicate and the ability for economies to buy and sell with each other more smoothly. The ability for economies to buy and sell is a key feature in any global market which the ability alone can see great growth in. Without the growth of global markets the country as a whole cannot expect to see great growth without some sort of backbone economically. In socially means, “the internet can reduce the traditional disadvantages of the developing world.” (Norris 1)
Norris, Pippa. “Information Poverty and the Wired World”. The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics. 5 (2000): 1-6. Print.
I agree that in the future the disparity between the internet use of developing democracies and the rest of the world will continue to grow. The 97 percent statistic that you listed regarding internet use by the developing democracies of the world is staggering and helps to show just how far ahead some societies in the world are compared to others in terms of technology.
ReplyDeleteThe 97 percent statistic reminds me of the PlayStation3 network that shows a map of the world, on this world are little dots everywhere showing where the players online at the moment are playing from. on the map, America is completely lit up and Europe is mostly lit up while there are few lights in South America, Asia, and Australia. There are maybe two dots lit in Africa. This is a prime example that literally 97 percent of the players of Call of Duty on PlayStation3 are in America and Europe.
ReplyDeleteThank you for commenting on my post. I agree with your comment on the fact that the internet use and technological growth will continue to spread the disparity of knowledge between nations. It is entirely because of the lack of technological growth of most countries around the world that the gap will continue to stay wide. There have been many different ideas on how to close this gap, some include possible programs by the United States and other countries to help developing nations acquire this technology. Programs in our own country like school programs giving laptops to students is one of the possible ways to close this gap if applied to a global scale.
ReplyDeletethe reference to the all the gamers on the internet has to do with a large portion of the use. If it were not for the large portion of gamers inside the United States and Japan there the gap would have to be significantly lower than it is .
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