The United Nations call on developing countries to ensure in the coming years a large part of their inhabitants of the internet. In 2015, sixty percent of the world’s population has access to the internet must have.
The International Telecommunication Union, the telecomorgaan of the UN, has a number of ambitious goals. One is that, in 2015, in all countries, high-speed internet access is available, or that there are at least plans available for you.
For that number to reach, would internet not too expensive. So should residents of countries such as China and India, according to the ITU, up to five percent of their monthly income to access to the web is lost. They pay up more than the inhabitants of developed countries such as the Netherlands and Belgium, where internet access is usually not more than one percent of the monthly income is paid.
The ITU feels that the internet penetration in developing countries by 2015, fifty percent must come true. Of the world’s population would be sixty percent of internet access should have. Last year, the ITU added that in 2015 half of the world’s population has access to the internet should have. According to Hamadoun Touré of the ITU are the new targets ‘ambitious but realistic’.
The United Nations see the internet as a civil right. Governments of developing countries need to use the internet, therefore, together with companies research and stimulate. Fast internet would, according to Touré for economic growth and additional employment opportunities; earlier research would reveal that there is a correlation between broadband penetration and economic progress. It is, however, whether all the authorities, the opinions of the United Nations follow-up.