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Info Society has eye on the Internet!

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  • 12-06-2003 8:27pm
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    Paddy20
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    The Information Society Commission, the independent advisory body to Government, recently published results of a major survey on the use of technology by consumers in Ireland. The survey , conducted by MRBI, involved 1400 participants and claims, that 49% of the Irish population now has access to the Internet, up from 41% in 2000 and from only 5% in 1996.

    Full story available from :- www.techcentral.ie
    and two [2] further reports, one on business usage! and one on consumer usage can be downloaded from: www.isc.ie.

    Paddy20


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    sceptre
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    "Access to the Internet" of course includes people who have a mate who owns a modem that they can visit every once in a while. Everyone I know has "access to the internet". As long as they bring Jaffa cakes when they visit.


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    Paddy20
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    Based on the survey, the Info Soc now claims that 63% of the adult population are familiar with the PC, up from 54% in 2000; while 93% of Irish adults have access to fixed line phones and 80% have access to a mobile phone.

    The survey also claims that 40% of those surveyed, have gone online to buy something in the last year.

    Alarmingly, the survey confirms that there is still a significant divide when it comes to technology adoption between the old and young, male and female ad city and country dwellers.


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