28 4 / 2012

Really interesting study, noting that Asia not only has the largest Internet population, but that it is also growing the fastest by quite some margin. Also:

  • Looking at just relative growth, Africa and the Middle East have increased the most, quadrupling the number of Internet users in each region.

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The Internet’s Population Doubled Over the Last Five Years

Royal Pingdom susses out some interesting trends about the world’s 2.27 billion Internet users:

  • Africa has gone from 34 million to 140 million, a 317% increase.
  • Asia has gone from 418 million to over 1 billion, a 143% increase.
  • Europe has gone from 322 million to 501 million, a 56% increase.
  • The Middle East has gone from 20 to 77 million, a 294% increase.
  • North America has gone from 233 to 273 million, a 17% increase.
  • Latin America (South & Central America) has gone from 110 to 236 million, a 114% increase.
  • Oceania (including Australia) has gone from 19 to 24 million, a 27% increase.

They also note that Asia’s Internet population is almost double the entire Internet population was in 2007.

(via mercycorps)

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28 4 / 2012

mercycorps:

poptech:

Education against all odds in Afghanistan – audio slideshow

As they say, education is light.
Every member of society should have knowledge.
Through knowledge we can solve all our problems.

(via Toni Greaves/Mercycorps)

Thanks to The Atlantic, PBS Newshour, Poptech and all who’ve reblogged this slideshow featuring our INVEST vocational training center in Helmand province, Afghanistan. Learn more about these incredible, courageous women.

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01 4 / 2012

(Source: missrep)

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15 3 / 2012

mercycorps: every woman should have access to education!

mercycorps:

every woman should have access to education!

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04 3 / 2012

Let’s hear it for the introverts! Susan Cain just did a fantastic Ted talk about the power of introverts, this is a talk from when she came into Google last month, a little longer but just as inspiring.

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23 2 / 2012

Dr. Paul Polak Invents Devices to Help the World’s Poorest

Really enjoyed reading Paul Polaks’ book lately. His working life from the strawberry farms of the Hammer (didn’t know hamilton had farms!) to social entrepreneurship in the developing world was a great demonstration of how important it is to better understand the people you are trying to help:
 
“Dr. Paul Polak Invents Devices to Help the World’s Poorest
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For 30 years Dr. Paul Polak has focused on creating devices that will improve the lives of 2.6 billion people living on less than $2 a day.”

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22 2 / 2012

Do higher education interventions really have a development impact?

Looking forward to exploring the impact on development of higher education initiatives at the LIDC-ACU conference on 19-20 March

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18 2 / 2012

Visited a few independently owned cyber cafes in Delhi, this is where 27% of India’s 120 million internet users access the web.

Visited a few independently owned cyber cafes in Delhi, this is where 27% of India’s 120 million internet users access the web.

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08 2 / 2012

INK in India

I was lucky enough to meet this inspiring woman, Lakshmi Pratury in Bangalore today. Her and her team are doing fantastic work at INKtalks.com to build and inspire communities to solve challenges for emerging countries. 
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Understanding India How do you make sense of a country with dozens of cultures, hundreds of languages and more than a billion people? Start with its history, says Lakshmi Pratury, the organiser of…

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