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Table 3.1C Infrastructure: top 5 by broadband Internet
subscribers per 100 inhabitants
1 Korea (Rep.) 21.9
2 Hong Kong, China 14.6
3 Canada 11.1
4 Taiwan, China 9.4
5 Belgium 8.4
Source: ITU World Telecommunication Indicator Database. Reproduced
with the kind permission of ITU.
and civil society would take a leading role in addressing the global problems
of access to communication resources:
Bridging the digital divide in and among countries has assumed a critical
importance on our respective national agendas. Everyone should
be able to enjoy access to information and communications networks.
We reaffirm our commitment to the efforts underway to formulate and
implement a coherent strategy to address this issue. We also welcome
the increasing recognition on the part of industry and civil society of
the need to bridge the divide. Mobilising their expertise and resources
is an indispensable element of our response to this challenge. We will
continue to pursue an effective partnership between government and
civil societies responsive to the rapid pace of technological and market
developments.
Okinawa Charter on the Global Information Society, 22 July 2000;
http://www.g8.utoronto.ca/summit/2000okinawa/gis.htm
The charter established the Digital Opportunity Task (DOT) Force,
which commissioned a report on ‘ICTs for Development’ (ICT4D) that
was authored by ‘Accenture, the world’s top private consulting firm, [the]
Markle Foundation (a non-profit in the US oriented toward US civil society
concerns) and the UNDP’. In tracing the road from Okinawa to the
World Summit on Information Societies (WSIS), Anita Gurumurthy, the
Table 3.1D Infrastructure: top 5 Internet users per 100 inhabitants
1 Iceland 64.9
2 Sweden 57.3
3 Korea (Rep.) 55.2
4 United States 55.1
5 Japan 54.5
Source: ITU World Telecommunication Indicator Database. Reproduced with the kind
permission of ITU.