[Air-L] Fwd: [IAMCR] 1.5 Billion

[jeremy hunsinger]

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> From: Kleinwächter, Wolfgang <wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de 
> >
> Date: November 13, 2008 4:18:47 AM EST
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> Cc: igf_members at intgovforum.org,  
> coalition at mailman.thepublicvoice.org, discuss at un-gaid.org, Announcements at iamcr.org
> Subject: [IAMCR] 1.5 Billion
>
> Dear friends
>
> last week the cyberworld crossed another historical line: Since  
> November 5, 2008 we have now more than 1.5 billilon Internet users  
> in the world (http://www.50x15.com/en%2Dus/) <http://www.50x15.com/en%2Dus/ 
> > .
>
> When WSIS ended in December 2005 we had just crossed the one billion  
> line. With other words: half a billion new users in the last three  
> years. Probably we will reach to two billion line in 2010 which  
> makes it rather realistic to reach the WSIS goal of "half of mankind  
> until 2015".
>
> BTW, we have nearly 4 billion mobile phones in the world. If all  
> these phone will be connected to the Internet the digital  
> opportunities will look rather different.
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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