Who uses the Internet best?

»Who uses the Internet Best? • THE ANSWER IS at least according to a recent study called the Web Index, which measures the Web's global impact in 61 developed and developing countries. How can this be? Take a look: SWEDEN PA Look at the Study The study ranked 61 countries across 7 categories including: Communications Infrastructure 2 Institutional Infrastructure 3 Web Use Funded by a 4 Web Content $1 million 5 Political Impact grant from Google 6 Social Impact Economic Impact P Quick Findings WHY? 1 IN 3 woridwide Use the Internet SWEDEN Personal Computers 1 IN 6 Sweden beat the U.S. in part Use the because there is a smaller Internet percentage of Americans online. in Africa 75% 90% The U.S. has a lower percentage of households with personal computers compared to countries like Canada, Japan and Ireland. The U.S. offers slower bandwidth of Americans per Internet user than countries like Sweden, Singapore and Iceland. of Swedes use the Internet use the Irelands economy benefits the most from the Web; Internet and communications-related exports accounted for 15% of its GDP Singapore has the world's 2007- 2010 fastest Internet O 2012 Scores 100 93.83 + 91.88 97.31 93.42 Sweden * Rank: 1 Finland * Rank: 5 USA UK * Rank: 3 Canada * Rank: 4 * Rank: 2 90.49 89.15 88.44 E 87.76 87.42 Switzerland Rank: 6 New Zealand * Rank: 7 Australia * Rank: 8 Norway * Rank: 9 Ireland * Rank: 10 Web Index Lowest Ranked Countries Burkina Faso O Zimbabwe * Rank: #60 Yemen Rank: #59 8.51 1.94 * Rank: #61 P The Index Measures e Ranks Web Readiness Web Use Impact The Quality and Extent of Connectivity to the Web and of Policies Regulating Web The Social, Economic and Political Indicators to Evaluate the Impact of the Web on these Dimensions The Percentage of Individuals Who Use the Internet and the Content Access Available to Them Rank Iceland United States Sweden 100 100 100 Sweden United Kingdom United States 96.76 94.69 ) 91.07 Finland Canada Canada 95.78 92.22 90.64 Switzerland United Kingdom ) 87.86 United States 94.98 92.18 Switzerland Singapore Finland 94.85 90.99 86.44 United Kingdom Iceland Ireland 94.07 89.30 D 84.45 Singapore New Zealand Australia 93.55 89.07 83.91 Norway Finland New Zealand 93.43 88.53 D 83.66 ZK.. New Zealand Australia Norway 90.66 87.08 83.59 10 Australia Ireland Switzerland 88.12 83.61 D 83.55 P Sources: O Db The Web Index | cnn.com | theatlantic.com Information provided by: http://oedb.org/ Online Education Database