Internet Penetration :: Computer Science

Internet PenetrationIdentify the incompatible levels of fellowship cleverness by the WorldWide Web in each(prenominal) of the following continents Asia , Africa , Norththe States , South America and Australia . Explore the reasons for thisvariation.The countries with the highest earnings brainwave are predominatelythose Western economies with strong economies and high levels ofaffluence. Out of the blow over 10 countries, European countries feature 6times, with Sweden having the highest penetration at 73.6% of the world welcome the net income. Other high ranking countries includeHong Kong (70.7%), The United States of America (USA) (68.5%),Australia (67.2%), Canada (63.8%), Korea (63.3%), Japan (60.9%),Taiwan (60.5%), Singapore (60.2%) and New Zealand (56.8%). The UnitedKingdom compares nearly at 60%. (Appendix 2 Internet world stats, 2005)World wide, these 25 countries dominate over 64% of their totalpopulation the internet penetration in the rest of the world is just7.8% of the remaining population.However, voices can be misleading whilst they give a goodindication of levels of literacy, affluence and behaviour, thepercentage of penetration would not give an indication of size ofpossible commercialise the USA has the largest market at 202,888,307 thenext largest being Japan at 78,050,000 and then the UK and Germanmarkets at 35,807,929 and 47,127,725 respectively.Whilst we have seen then that internet penetration is very(prenominal) strong inthese affluent societies, at that place are many interesting developments inthe emerging economies.Those countries in Asia that have traditionally had low developedeconomies, such as mainland China and India , have very different levels ofinternet penetration despite both countries attempting to developtheir economic wealth. China , with a population of 1,306,313,812 has94 million internet users (Appendix 1) this however translates to further 7.2% of the population. The Chinese middle class is only 4% ofth e population i.e. those who have household incomes of more than$20,000 but that translates into a market or 50 million people(Khanna, T) a broad market for prospective investors in the country.This compares very favourably with internet penetration in India where the population is very similar to China s - 1,080,264,388.00but there are only 18, 481,000 internet users, a penetration of 1.71%of the population. This may be due to Government intercession in China in a recent report it has been put together that China has nurtured anddirected the economy ( Khanna, T 2005). In addition there is adifference in the gross domestic product per capita in China , the GDP per capita is$5,600, whereas in India it is only $3,100. However, in both countriesthere is a huge gap between the wealthiest and poorest people, both in