37% rural youth sans Internet access: Study
Tokyo: Information technology ministers of the G7 countries, during a meeting in Japan on Saturday, agreed to tackle the digital divide by bringing internet access to more people, and pushing for policies free of political censorship.
The plan set out by the ministers of the G7 countries – Japan, the US, Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Italy – and European Union officials is to enable 1.5 billion more people to have internet access by 2020, EFE news reported.
It is believed that around 4 billion people, representing 60 percent of the world’s population, still lack internet access.
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