According to survey published by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, more than a quarter of American adults used their cell phones to learn about or participate in the 2010 mid-term election campaign. Of those cell owners, 71% use their phone for texting and 39% use the phone for accessing the internet. More results on the Pew Internet website.
This year begins the second decade of the Economist Intelligence
Unit’s annual benchmarking study of countries’ digital development,
previously known as the “e-readiness rankings”. Given the prevalence of
Internet-connected consumers, businesses and governments, and the
indispensable role that digital communications and services now play in
most of the world’s economies, we believe that the countries in our
study have achieved, to one degree or another, a state of e-readiness.
The study’s new title, the “digital economy rankings”, captures the
challenge of maximising the use of information and communications
technology (ICT) that countries face in the years ahead.
72% of Internet users are part of at least one social network, which
translates to 940 million users worldwide. These are the results of a
global study among 2,800 Internet users carried out by the research
agency InSites Consulting. Eastern Europe and Asia are the regions with
the lowest use (4 out of 10), while South America has the highest usage
in terms of percentage (95%). Globally, Facebook remains the most
popular online platform (51% use Facebook), followed by MySpace (20%)
and Twitter (17%).16 % of Internet users are members of a strictly professional network, such as LinkedIn, where social media log is on average twice per day.
According to Eleana Gordon, founder of the Center for Liberty in the
Middle East, presenting its latest initiative, the Institute of Online
Activism at the World e-Democracy Forum in Issy-les-Moulineaux (Paris), 30 % of bloggers in the Middle East are women. The Institute allows women in the Middle East access to tools to "turn their dreams into action for change." Her speech illustrates the rise of e-democracy in this region.
The Center for Liberty in the Middle East (Clime) is a nonprofit organization that supports defenders of democratic values of freedom and tolerance in the Middle East. Through its network of activists across the region, CLIME advocates a peaceful transition of political systems that protect individual liberties, allow the full political participation and respect of ethnic pluralism, religious and political.
Eleana Gordon is also founder of "Online Activism Institute", whose goal is to teach activism through e*learning, activist videos and virtual mentoring. After a year of development, it launched in 2009 in Egypt and Jordan with training for 90 women on its flagship online course, "Create Your Activism Plan."
The Online Activism Institute is a consortium of NGOs, web-development, and academic partners in the Middle East and United States, who work together to provide state-of the-art training and resources through an e-learning platform. The consortium is based in Cairo, Amman and Washington, D.C. with plans to expand to more locations in the future. The Online Activism Institute is funded through the U.S. Department of State's Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). MEPI supports efforts to foster reform throughout the Middle East and North Africa.
Generation Y, also known as the Millennial Generation, describes the demographic cohort following Generation X. Its members are often referred to as Millennials or Echo Boomers. As there are no precise dates for when the Millennial generation starts and ends, commentators have used birth dates ranging somewhere from the 1980s to the late 1990s. They are subject of sociological reports. They have a very different social behavior of their elders? as spoiled children who demand the best salary conditions and the best time to work.This philosophy is very different from that of baby boomers makes it the "Y" unmanageable?And what will happens with the next generation, also known as Generation Z, net-generation, or digital natives.
To understand the question, the prestigious U.S. bank Morgan Stanley did not hesitate to ask one of
his trainees, a British teenager of 15 years, to write a report on
patterns of media consumption of his generation.Sufficiently eloquent to be published in the "Financial Times".For its part, PricewaterhouseCoopers interviewed young Swedish via Internet and Facebook.A report entitled "e-revolution".
What can we take out?That we may be the most innovative generation with us.And that collaborative and participatory are not just words ...
Europe leads the world in mobile phone services with the number of subscriptions in 2008 at 119% of the EU population (up 7 percentage points from 2007), well ahead of the US (87%) and Japan (84%). This is a finding of Commission progress report on the single telecoms market. Despite the economic crisis, the EU's telecoms sector (worth about 3% of EU GDP) continued to grow in 2008 with revenues estimated at above €300 billion, up 1.3% compared to 2007 and outperforming the rest of the economy (up by 1% only).
