Unsurprisingly, the survey found that wealthier groups were likely to use the web and social media to increase their knowledge and amplify their voice in public debate. But low-paid workers, subsistence and small holder famers and women in the developing world were less likely to be able to access important information online.
No developing country has yet achieved the UN target of connecting at least 50 percent of their population to the internet. In Africa less than one in five people had internet access.
Anne Jellema, the chief of the World Wide Web foundation, was scathing of attempts by world leaders to meet the UN target and get people connected to the internet.
“Ten years after world leaders committed to harnessing technology to build an inclusive information society, parents in over 48 percent of countries can’t use the web to compare school performance and budgets, women in over 60 percent of countries can’t use the web to help them make informed choices about their bodies and over half the population in developing countries can’t use the web at all,” she told The Guardian.
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