Dear All,
If you don’t want to play with the
numbers, you should more or less paraphrase what you are looking for. For me
personally it isn’t interesting to count the internet cafes. Multifunctional
community telecentre (serving and controlled by small communities) is a different
thing. My guess for the last one – based on my register containing
information about 90 countries – is 150.000 –
200.000 worldwide.
Matyas Gaspar
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Don,
I can't agree more with your observation, yes they number as many as
Barber shops or news agents in the Asian countries . I just read a Philiphines
based news digest columnist share the same view.
http://www.mb.com.ph/TECH2004122825305.html .
Given the low entry & exit barrier, the float remains constant to
reducing .
The Best estimates between 20,000 to 2,00,000 are just wild
guess. I remember reading news stories of China itself host to 200,000 cafes.
In South korea where "PC Bangs" are regarded as
the strongest driving forces to raise Korean software industry had over
20,000 cafes in 2002 .
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/aspac/papers/scholars/parkb/park.htm
but with abundance of broadband , they are diminishing.
Here in India, Bangalore city Police estimates 5000 centres ,
on whom they have enacted a law which demands you to prove your identity before
you access the Internet. add Mumbai another 5,000.
Maybe a reverse hypothesis may work , lets say how
many minutes of information access is required which can be best served by
telecentres of all the hues. At least this number will give us the relevance
& scope of our operations . Look forward to you
all members comments.
Thanks
Ashish Saboo
India
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 Don Cameron wrote :
>This does make for an interesting exercise...
>
>Of the figures available, the "best estimates" seem to
place the total
>number of global cyber-cafes and Telecentre's at somewhere between 20,000
to
>200,000 - quite a variation! - although perhaps not surprising considering
>earlier this year China closed 8,600 cyber cafés in just a 3 month
period(1)
>comparable to the 3,300 cafes closed in China over a 6 month period in
>2002(2).
>
>Counting Telecentre's and Cyber Cafés is probably akin to counting
take-away
>hamburger shops or newsagents... There are so may opening and closing
>simultaneously that I doubt you could achieve anything near a
qualitative
>assessment of the real number at any given time - but good luck in your
>efforts.
>
>(1)
>http://theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/07/1083881475636.html?>
>(2) http://computercops.biz/article1962.html
>
>Rgds, Don
>
>
Ashish Saboo
President
Association of Public Internet Access Provider (ApiAp)
The voice of independent Cyber cafe operators
URL: http://www.apiap.cybernook.net
Blog: http://apiap.blogspot.com
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