The digital divide still affects two-thirds of the world population - The Mundo.es

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their International Day held today with the challenge of reducing digital divide that still affects 4.500 million people , which means that two-thirds of the world population still have no access to the higher source of information and data in the world.

“There remains a large gap between the fixed access subscriptions to broadband Internet in the developing world compared to most industrialized countries, where fixed broadband penetration is 77% compared to 31% of the population of the first group “, explained the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

European population

is the world’s most connected, with 77% penetration, followed by the Americas with 61%. However, regions with less access to the largest library in the world are Asia and the Pacific , with 32% penetration, and Africa where not exceed 16% .

challenge to remove this gap and create a globally connected world must be addressed at the same time to improve a technology that should gradually accommodate a greater volume of information.

Data Everyday , the 2,700 million people have Internet access “up” 300 million photos to Facebook, see 130 million hours of YouTube, send 500 million messages of 140 characters Twitter and “poke” around 2,700 million ‘Like’ on social network updates.

frantic activity in the virtual world seems endless because ITU estimates that in 2016 there will be 81 ‘exabytes’ traffic of Internet content every month , corresponding to all information that could be stored in some 20,000 million DVDs and pose a data volume 54 times higher than in 2005.

On the other hand, one of the most popular Internet services and used worldwide, the World Wide Web, joins this year in a special way to celebrate their Day.

20 years of the Web

20 years ago that the European Centre for Particle Physics (CERN) published a statement authorizing the free and open use of the WWW , created by Tim Berners-Lee four years earlier.

In 1989, this physicist developed a system of information exchange between scientists from different universities and laboratories around the world. With the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee was to use the Internet to create a network that allowed CERN physicists read and publish documents and establish links between them.

Web The invention of radically simplified the way that information can be shared, to create a code that allowed the development of pages that could include text and, over the years, images and multimedia content .

physical himself said in an interview on the twentieth anniversary of his invention that CERN played a role in his invention, and that he had “all the atmosphere, scientists, technology, support, all I needed to develop my idea. “

But the invention is not expanded until the democratic vision of its creator made available to the international community .

authorization for the Web was used freely and widely allowed the exchange of knowledge at globaliza ly ushered in the information revolution in all sectors of society, transforming the way people communicate, to work, to innovate and to live.