COMPUTER 10: Lesson 7 - File Storage and Online Collaboration
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1. Overview of Caribbean Internet Governance Bernadette Lewis Secretary General Caribbean Telecommunications Union LACNIC X Margarita 22 May 2007
2. Internet Usage for the Caribbean Country GDP per Capita Users No of Computers Broadband Access Cost per Month E-Governance US$ Per 100 Pop Per 100 Pop Per 100 Pop US$ Jamaica 3,300 40.00 6.20 1.00 30 Comprehensive transaction-based Suriname 2,879 6.80 4.70 n/a 82 Information Delivery Trinidad & Tobago 9,384 12.24 7.90 n/a 72 Information Delivery Grenada 3,750 16.90 15.53 1.15 56 Policies under Development Barbados 10,460 55.00 12.55 10.1 60 Moving towards Transaction-based Guyana 1,000 18.90 3.52 10.10 30 Information Delivery
3. Internet Usage for the Caribbean and other Regions World Regions Population Population Internet Usage, % Population Usage Usage Growth ( 2007 Est.) % of World Latest Data ( Penetration ) % of World 2000-2007 Asia 3,712,527,624 56.50% 398,709,065 10.70% 35.80% 248.80% Caribbean 39,622,875 0.60% 5,216,909 13.20% 0.50% 832.60% Europe 809,624,686 12.30% 314,792,225 38.90% 28.30% 199.50% Latin America 516,983,752 8.47% 91,169,100 16.38% 8.18% 423.34% Middle East 193,452,727 2.90% 19,424,700 10.00% 1.70% 491.40% North America 334,538,018 5.10% 233,188,086 69.70% 20.90% 115.70% Oceania / Australia 34,468,443 0.50% 18,439,541 53.50% 1.70% 142.00% WORLD TOTAL 6,574,666,417 100.00% 1,114,274,426 16.90% 100.00% 208.70%