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Quotation[0] = "ITU estimates that some 800'000 villages - representing around one billion people worldwide - still lack connection to any kind of information and communication technology.";
Quotation[1] = "At present, the 942 million people living in the world's developed economies enjoy five times better access to fixed and mobile phone services, nine times better access to Internet services, and own 13 times more PCs than the 85% of the world's population living in low and lower-middle income countries.";
Quotation[2] = "At WSIS Geneva in December 2003, World leaders declared 'our common desire and commitment to build a people-centered, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society, where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge, enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full potential in promoting their sustainable development and improving their quality of life, premised on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and respecting fully and upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.'";
Quotation[3] = "At present, the 942 million people living in the world’s developed economies enjoy five times better access to fixed and mobile phone services, nine times better access to Internet services, and own 13 times more PCs than the 85% of the world’s population living in low and lower-middle income countries.";
Quotation[4] = "In 2004, the developing world had 4 times fewer fixed telephones than the developed world.
In 2004, the developing world had 4 times fewer mobile subscribers per 100 people than the developed world.
In 2004, the developed world still had 8 times the Internet user penetration rate of the developing world.";
Quotation[5] = "In 2004, less than 3 out of every 100 Africans used the Internet, compared with an average of 1 out of every 2 inhabitants of the G8 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and the US).";
Quotation[6] = "There are roughly around the same total number of Internet users in the G8 countries as in the whole rest of the world combined:
- 429 million Internet users in G8
- 444 million Internet users in non-G8";
Quotation[7] = "ITU estimates that some 800'000 villages – representing around one billion people worldwide – still lack connection to any kind of information and communication technology.
In 2004, less than 3 out of every 100 Africans use the Internet, compared with an average of 1 out of every 2 inhabitants of the G8 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the UK and the US).";
Quotation[8] = "There are roughly around the same total number of Internet users in the G8 countries as in the whole rest of the world combined:
429 million Internet users in G8
444 million Internet users in non-G8";
Quotation[9] = "The G8 countries are home to just 15% of the world's population - but almost 50% of the world's total Internet users.
It is estimated that top 20 countries in terms of Internet bandwidth are home to roughly 80% of all Internet users worldwide.
There are more than 8 times as many Internet users in the US than on the entire African continent.";
Quotation[10]= "There are more than three times as many Internet users in Japan as on the entire African continent.
There are more than twice as many Internet users in Germany than on the entire African continent.
The entire African continent - home to over 50 countries - has fewer Internet users than France alone.";
Quotation[11]= "There are more Internet users in Seoul (Republic of Korea), than all of sub-Saharan Africa, excluding South Africa.
There are more Internet users in London than in the whole of Pakistan.
Switzerland, host of the first World Summit on the Information Society, has five times the Internet penetration rate of Tunisia, host of the second Summit.";
Quotation[12]= "Discrepancies in international Internet bandwidth - the critical infrastructure that dictates the speed at which websites in other countries can be accessed - are nothing short of astounding. Tiny Denmark has more than twice the international Internet bandwidth that the whole of Latin American and the Caribbean combined.";
Quotation[13]= "The high cost of international bandwidth is often a major constraint, with developing countries often having to pay the full cost of a link to a hub in a developed country. More than 40 countries have less than 10Mbps of international Internet bandwidth, whereas in Belgium, a 9Mbps ADSL high-speed Internet package is available for just EUR 60 a month.
There are still 30 countries with an Internet penetration of less than 1%.";
Quotation[14]= "Switzerland, host of the first World Summit on the Information Society, has five times the Internet penetration rate of Tunisia, host of the second Summit.";
Quotation[15]= "Discrepancies in international Internet bandwidth - the critical infrastructure that dictates the speed at which websites in other countries can be accessed - are nothing short of astounding. Tiny Denmark has more than twice the international Internet bandwidth that the whole of Latin American and the Caribbean combined.";
Quotation[16]= "The high cost of international bandwidth is often a major constraint, with developing countries often having to pay the full cost of a link to a hub in a developed country. More than 40 countries have less than 10Mbps of international Internet bandwidth, whereas in West-Europe, a 25MBbps ADSL2 high-speed Internet package is available for just EUR 50 a month.";
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