Internet Penetration in Africa Compared to the Rest of the World
Percy Okae, Kojo Gyasi · 2013
Though the Internet has been around for quite a few decades, the continent of Africa had indisputably lagged behind the rest of the world rather abysmally in the past due to very poor infrastructural development. However, today the tottering continent of Africa is making a gradual climb onto the information superhighway which has reduced our world to a global village courtesy the World Wide Web (WWW). But the question arises as to how Africa can sustain and improve upon the current growth statistics so as to keep pace with the rest of the world where the nu mber of Internet users (netizens) keep rising at a far rapid pace with each passing day. The days are long gone when one had to always rely on snail mail, for instance, for purposes of communicat ing with friends and family both far and near since e-mail has now almost wholly taken over the duties of snail mail much as regular person to person communications are concerned. This paper talks about Internet statistics in Africa and proffers suggestions as to the remedial measures that need to be taken for imp rovement. It also talks about how the upsurge in mobile phone usage in Africa has brought the Internet to the doorsteps of the average African.