ICT SupportThe End User: More world on the web

The End User: More world on the web. Victoria Shannon. International Herald Tribune. Online May 2006. The global distribution of Internet users has sharply shifted away from the largely American base of years past, giving the "world" in World Wide Web new legitimacy. … fewer than one-quarter of global Internet users were in the United States, comScore Networks said in a report last week. A decade ago, the rate was about two-thirds. Of the 694 million unique visitors over the age of 14 who used the Internet in March, the most were in seven countries: the United States (152.1 million), China (74.7 million), Japan (52.1 million), Germany (31.8 million), Britain (30.2 million), South Korea (24.7 million) and France (23.9 million), it says. …Together, China, Japan, India and South Korea represent nearly 25 percent of the total worldwide online population, 168.1 million users, a figure that in the aggregate is 11 percent larger than the U.S. online surfership. … the research excludes traffic from public computers like those at Internet cafés, a primary means of access in Asia, and access from cellphones or PDAs. …