You gotta love
research like this because it really puts thing into perspective. Google
recently paid a million dollars
to fund a study to determine which country uses the Internet best. You may
wonder exactly what that means, I know I did. This particular study measured
the web’s global impact in 61 countries. The way I understand it, it measures
which countries use the Internet in the most optimized way so it impacts every
part of people’s lives in a productive, useful way.
To get the answer to this question, a team
spent a whole year researching things like the Internet’s impact on politics, social issues, economy
and communications in these countries. With all things considered, Sweden is number one! If you’ve
been reading Bit Rebels for a while, you know this is fun news for us to report
since the founder of this site, and my dear friend, Richard Darell, lives in
Stockholm.
According to the CNN
article entitled Sweden Is
Best At Using Internet, this study, called Web
Index, is the first of its kind. The guy who
is credited for pretty much inventing
the web in the first place, Tim Berners-Lee oversaw the research and the
results. The United States
came in second place, and the UK in third. The lowest ranking countries were
Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe and Yemen. Keep in mind, they only researched 61
countries, and they are all either developed or developing.
Another interesting
tidbit from this report is that one in three people worldwide use the Internet.
However, that doesn’t mean it’s even across countries of course. For example, only one in six people in Africa
use the Internet. My favorite sentence on here is “The U.S. offers slower
bandwidth per Internet user than countries like Sweden, Singapore and Iceland.”
See, it’s not my imagination
after all! The report says that Singapore has the world’s fastest Internet.
It’s also interesting to note that 75% of Americans use the Internet, and 90%
of Swedes use the Internet. Now I want to
know which country uses the most water, which country uses the
most fuel, and which country eats the most pizza. You can learn all about which country uses the
Internet most for different things (and more from the Web Index study) in this
infographic below called Who Uses The Internet Best by OEDb.
Congratulations Sweden! Du fortjanar det. Err…
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