Geneva-Sana
The International Telecommunication Union revealed in recent data that a third of the world's population is still not connected to the Internet, equivalent to about 2.9 billion people.
Many around the world suffer from access to the Internet at a time when the Corona epidemic has demonstrated the importance of the network in ensuring the continuity of work and study during crises.
The new data revealed that about 4.9 billion people browsed the Internet during the current year, an increase of 800 million people over the number of users before the pandemic.
The measures to contain the epidemic have led to the closure of countless companies and schools all over the world, sometimes for consecutive months, prompting employees, schoolchildren and university students to use the Internet to continue working and studying if they have access to the network, but the availability of this connection is still tainted by inequality. Almost all of those without it live in developing countries, or 96 percent.
There are also hundreds of millions of people connected to the Internet who can only do so by using means they share with others or have only low speed, which greatly limits their benefit from the capabilities of the Internet.