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InformatIon Is Power

nations and individuals became richer, they would buy
digital gadgets and infrastructure, so bringing an end to
the digital gap as a logical consequence of this trend.
Despite the fact that incomes have increased around
the globe over the course of the past two decades,
access to digital services continues to be limited in a
significant portion of the developing world. This is often
the result of insufficient funds being invested in the
physical infrastructure of the Internet. Citizens may have
equipment that can connect to the Internet, but they do
not have a link to the World Wide Web due to a lack of
or poor infrastructure. The percentage of people who
have access to the Internet still varies greatly between
continents: for example, 80 percent of people living in
Europe had access to the Internet in 2022, whereas only
22 percent of people living in Africa had access to the
Internet (World Bank Group, 2018).
These figures, on the other hand, conceal a significant
amount of variance that exists among countries and
regions. Even when they are developing in other areas,
large countries that border oceans typically have
considerably greater access to the Internet than smaller
ones that do not. As a result of this, the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU), which is an agency
of the United Nations responsible for information
and communication technologies, began compiling
statistics on landlocked developing countries and small
island developing states based on aggregate statistics
pertaining to the developing world.

In a similar manner, even within nations that are
considered to be highly developed, there are significant

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