Key trends and challenges to the right of all individuals to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds through the Internet 2011, para. 67
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- The Millennium Development Goals, including target 8.F, aim to make available, in cooperation with the private sector, the benefits of new technologies, especially ICT. This target is measured by the indicators of the number of telephone lines, mobile cellular subscriptions and Internet users per 100 people. Currently access to the Internet is far less widespread than mobile communications. At the end of 2009, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) estimated that some 1.7 billion people around the world were using the Internet, or just over a quarter of the world's population (26 per cent). In developing countries, around 17.8 per cent were online. By the end of 2010, only Europe had achieved the target, with average Internet penetration rate at 67 per cent, and the Americas had reached around 50.7 per cent. These figures include public, communal centres and other kinds of Internet access. Moreover, according to the latest Millennium Development Goals Report 2011, although the number of Internet users continues to expand, penetration levels in the developing world remain relatively low, at 21 per cent at the end of 2010, compared to 72 per cent in the developed regions. Globally, two out of three people are not using the Internet. In the least developed countries, Internet penetration was as low as 3 per cent at the end of 2010.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Governance & Rule of Law
- Person(s) affected
- All
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Freedom of Opinion, Report to the UNGA (2011), A/66/290, para. 67.
- Paragraph number
- 67
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