Lack of internet access increases global inequality INTERNET

"According to the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI), at the current rate of progress towards only 16% of the poorest countries in the world and 53% of the entire world will be connected," explains Sambuli. The Alliance for its part notes that this delay “will undermine global development in all areas, contribute to lost opportunities for economic growth, and deny hundreds of millions access to online education, health services, political voice and much. , much more ».

 

Inequality in access is also compounded by a gender gap. The GSMA association has found that in developing countries there are 10% fewer women than men with a mobile phone, which translates into 184 million women without this device.

 

Furthermore, of the women who own mobile phones in these countries, 1.2 billion do not use the Internet. In general, there are 26% fewer women than men using the Internet. Research by the World Wide Web Foundation found that in poor communities in nine cities in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, nearly all women and men own a telephone.

 

However, when controlling for income, education level and age, women are almost 50% less likely to access the Internet than men in the same communities, and only 37% of the women surveyed use the Internet. from Internet.

 

Sambuli collects all these barriers to highlight the importance of new technologies and emphasizes that it is "a profound manifestation of the inequality of societies and political failure."


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