Surprise! Djibouti has highest Internet usage in Africa according to a new study

The Pew Forum has a new report out that focuses on religion in Africa. But hidden in the "Tolerance and Tension: Islam and Christianity in Sub-Saharan Africa" document is a page on Internet usage - and guess who leads sub-Sahara Africa?

  1. 60% of Djibouti going online regularly!
  2. 36% of Botswana is second
  3. 30% of Rwanda is third (but has highest hype)

This is in stark contrast to the World Bank report that puts Sudan and Zimbabwe at the top of the list.

You can download the full Pew report here: http://pewforum.org/docs/?DocID=515 The ICT-related results start on page 320.

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Submitted by Wayan Vota on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 02:54
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Wayan Vota

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Wayan Vota is a technology expert focused on appropriate information and communication technologies (ICT) for rural and underserved areas of the developing world. He is a Senior Director at Inveneo and is the editor of ICTworks

Surprise! Djibouti has

Submitted by farah (not verified) on Fri, 04/16/2010 - 08:31

It's possible. when there's only about 700,000 of us, less than San Francisco, with an urban population of ~85% and a literacy rate of ~60% with access to net cafes. But I guess it's 60% of the literate 60%.

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