UAE leads ME in number of net users
The UAE registered the highest number of internet users in 2006 where access percentage was 36.1 per cent of the total population, clinching the top position in the Middle East.
The number of internet users in the UAE is estimated at 1.4 million persons, constituting 7.3 per cent of the internet users in the Middle East, says the Internet World Stats report.
Internet users in the Middle East increased at the rate of 479.3 per cent over the past six years whereas by the end of 2006 there were 19 million internet users representing 1.8 per cent of the total users worldwide, which reached a billion during the same period.
Findings of the report showed that the Middle East ranked sixth among regions of the world that use internet technology.
The use of communication and information technology in the Arab region still lags behind, whereby landlines, cell phones and the internet are in use at the rate of 10,24 and 8 per cent respectively.
According to the Digital Access Index (DAI), decline in the use of information technology in the Arab countries, especially in the gulf region could be attributed to lack of technology awareness rather than deficiency of technological infrastructure.
Supervised by the ITU, DAI is based on four fundamental vectors that impact a country's ability to access ICTs: infrastructure, affordability, knowledge and quality and actual usage of ICT. Based on these indicators countries of the world are ranked to provide a transparent and globally measurable way of tracking progress towards improving access to ICTs.
The UAE bagged the 9th position among countries with the highest access to communication and information technology, followed by Qatar which ranked 23rd and Kuwait in the 35th position.
Among countries of declining access Syria came third, Yemen was placed in the 16th position followed by Mauritania 34th and Sudan 38th while Iraq and Somalia were not included in the list. Source
The number of internet users in the UAE is estimated at 1.4 million persons, constituting 7.3 per cent of the internet users in the Middle East, says the Internet World Stats report.
Internet users in the Middle East increased at the rate of 479.3 per cent over the past six years whereas by the end of 2006 there were 19 million internet users representing 1.8 per cent of the total users worldwide, which reached a billion during the same period.
Findings of the report showed that the Middle East ranked sixth among regions of the world that use internet technology.
The use of communication and information technology in the Arab region still lags behind, whereby landlines, cell phones and the internet are in use at the rate of 10,24 and 8 per cent respectively.
According to the Digital Access Index (DAI), decline in the use of information technology in the Arab countries, especially in the gulf region could be attributed to lack of technology awareness rather than deficiency of technological infrastructure.
Supervised by the ITU, DAI is based on four fundamental vectors that impact a country's ability to access ICTs: infrastructure, affordability, knowledge and quality and actual usage of ICT. Based on these indicators countries of the world are ranked to provide a transparent and globally measurable way of tracking progress towards improving access to ICTs.
The UAE bagged the 9th position among countries with the highest access to communication and information technology, followed by Qatar which ranked 23rd and Kuwait in the 35th position.
Among countries of declining access Syria came third, Yemen was placed in the 16th position followed by Mauritania 34th and Sudan 38th while Iraq and Somalia were not included in the list. Source
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