Do you know that solely 42% of individuals in South East Asia have entry to the web? Or that solely 34% of these in Africa are capable of often log on?

Whereas the web is a lifestyle in lots of areas, it’s nonetheless not broadly obtainable to all, which results in financial disparity, lowered literacy, restricted academic alternatives, and extra.

That’s why Meta is working to join the world, which isn’t solely to handle these components, but additionally to maximise its personal enterprise alternatives, and why tasks like Starlink are necessary for world growth.

As a result of with out common web entry, as a base minimal, inequity will stay, which then branches into all method of different issues.

To supply some perspective on this, the crew from Visible Capitalist have put collectively this overview of web entry all over the world.

Some attention-grabbing stats, value contemplating whenever you have a look at ongoing internet developments.