Internet User Base in Asian Countries: An Analytical Review
Author : P.K. Paul , K.S Shivraj and A. BhuimaliVolume 6 No.2 July-December 2016 pp 37-40
Abstract
Internet is the most important for lots of task in today’s age. The speed of the Internet has been changes the customer base and introduced many services. Earlier Internet was mainly used for the activities of sharing of information and resources, uploading and downloading content and mainly communicating with others with several means. The development of Internet services had started in 1990’s but in the last decade the entire arena of Internet has been changed with rapid growth. The Internet service among the users was 9% and in 2005 in Asia. Thereafter the Internet has grown and within 2010 the user base touches 23%. Importantly the most user based countries from Asia are India and China. This is a conceptual paper and mainly talks about thee users perspective in Asia. However several information on other parts of the world have been also provided.
Keywords
Internet, www, Asia, International, Digital Divide, ICTD, Social Computing, Community Informatics, Internet Users, Digital Nation, Information Society