On 4 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > With only 28 million Internet users in India (I've always thought > those figures are wild underestimations given that so many people > use cybercafes)
I thought cybercafes (at least in urban centres) to be a dying breed. A lot more laptops to be seen on the streets. Or maybe it's just where I stay. Also, Internet World Stats [1] gives a projected figure of 42 million for March 2007 (based on a Nov 2006 survey). That's about 4% of the population. Which reminds me of that 2001 experiment in a Delhi slum by someone from NIIT. A computer (no keyboard, internet access) was installed in a concrete wall in a slum. Does anyone remember what came out of it ? I remember something about needing $ 2 billion to give every child an "internet device". Footnotes: [1] http://www.internetworldstats.com/usage/use009.htm -- Alok <rcw> those apparently-bacteria-like multicolor worms coming out of microsoft's backorifice <rcw> that's the backoffice logo
