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THE INFORMATION AGE
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| Daily News papers | Radios | Television (a) | Cable | Fax Machines (a) | Personal Computers |
Internet |
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| ( Per 1,000 people) | ( Per 1,000 people) | Sets (Per 1,000 people) | Subscribers (Per 1,000 people) | (Per 1,000 people) | (Per 1,000 people) | Hosts per 10,000 people (b) | Users thousands (a) | Services provider charge ($) | Telephone call charge ($) | Secure Serves | Information and communication technology expenditures % of GDP | |
| 1996 | 1999 | 1999 | 1999 | 1999 | 1999 | July,2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1998 | 2000 | 1999 | |
| Bangladesh | 9 | 50 | 7 | - | - | 1.0 | 0.0 | 50 | - | - | 1 | - |
| India | - | 121 | 75 | 37.1 | 0.2 | 3.3 | 0.32 | 2800 | 13 | 0 | 85 | 3.46 |
| Nepal | 11 | 39 | 7 | 2.9 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 0.35 | 35 | - | - | - | - |
| Pakistan | 23 | 104 | 119 | 0.1 | 2.0 | 4.3 | 0.40 | 80 | - | - | 6 | - |
| Sri Lanka | 29 | 209 | 102 | 0.0 | - | 5.6 | 0.91 | 65 | - | - | 5 | - |
NOTE:- a= Data
are from the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU ) World
Telecommunication Development Report 2000' and Challenges to the Network:
Internet for Development (1999). Please cite the ITU for third party use
of these data.
b= Data are from the Internet Software Consortium (www.isc.org). $= US
Dollars
DATA SOURCES: The data on newspapers and radios are compiled by
UNESCO. The data on Television sets, cable television subscribers ,fax
machines, personal Computers ,Internet users and Internet access charges
are from the ITU. They are reported in the ITU's World Telecommunication
Development Report 2000', Challenges to the Network: Internet for Development
( 1999 ) and the World Telecommunications Indicators Database (2000b).
The data on Internet hosts are the Internet Software Consortium( www.
isc .org). The data on Secure Servers from Netcraft (www.Netcraft. com).
The data from information and Communications Technology expenditures are
from "Digital Planet 2000 : The Global Information Economy"
by the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) which
uses data from the International Data Corporation.
REPORT :World Development Indicators: (2001), The World Bank, (Washington,
2001).