experiencing as much as a 60% increase in Internet traffic compared to before the crisis. In the medium term, regulators could …

The Internet has been remarkably successful in developing greater opportunities for communication access - and economic … from developing countries and will connect to the Internet principally via wireless networks. But there are substantial … gender, rural coverage, skills and educational levels. This book examines how the market for internet traffic exchange has …

(OECD), the Internet Society (ISOC) and UNESCO. The study was initially presented at the sixth annual meeting of the … Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on 27 September 2011 in Nairobi (Kenya). The study confirms that local content, Internet … higher levels of local digital content creation; (ii) countries with more Internet infrastructure (at all income levels) are …

This report presents a framework for analysing Internet openness, the factors that influence it, and its effects. It … also presents initial qualitative and quantitative evidence on the effects of Internet openness. Among the key findings are … that Internet openness consists of many technical, economic and social elements and that overall openness is vital for …

Broadband access refers to technologies that provide access to the Internet at download speeds of 256 kbit/s or greater …