Africa & The Internet
From a numbers view, there are about 1.6B internet users (source). Most, about 96.6%, are outside Africa, with about 54M internet users within that continent itself. It's a digital divide - since about 14.5% of the world's population lives there - but only 3.4% of internet users are from that continent.
Egypt has the most internet users, about 10.5M, with Nigeria second at 10M. This surprised me, as my pre-conceived notions led me to think South Africa is the most developed nation and would have the most internet users. Wrong! It's Egypt. (source)
And Why Africans aren't reading?
From a content point of view, most of the events, technologies, or topics I write about are more relevant to Americans, per se. So, this is a good reason why African internet users aren't finding or reading my blog. This blog does not trying to reach any specific audience, it's utility is very general purpose, though what does it say about the content if only certain regions of the world are interested?
What are people reading on this blog?
My analytics software tells me that most readers are viewing the home page, so it's hard to say what people are reading when they visit this blog. When a specific article is visited, you can get a better idea of why internet users have come across my blog.
Here are the top three articles visited, that were written in the past six months.
- Amazon.com Marketing: Kindle (February, 2009)
- EStrat 9 Case Competition (January, 2009)
- This Term, Rent Textbooks, Don't Buy (December, 2008)
Visits By Country, From Dec 1, 2008 - May 13th,2009
| Country/Territory | Visits |
| United States | 1034 |
| India | 37 |
| Canada | 32 |
| United Kingdom | 21 |
| Singapore | 14 |
| Estonia | 11 |
| Malaysia | 11 |
| Hong Kong | 10 |
| Indonesia | 9 |
| Spain | 7 |
| France | 7 |
| Chile | 6 |
| Taiwan | 5 |
| Australia | 5 |
| South Korea | 4 |
| China | 4 |
| Vietnam | 4 |
| Netherlands | 4 |
| Germany | 4 |
| Israel | 4 |
| Portugal | 3 |
| Sweden | 3 |
| Denmark | 3 |
| Turkey | 3 |
| Ukraine | 3 |
| Romania | 3 |
| Brazil | 3 |
| Belgium | 3 |
| Qatar | 3 |
| Philippines | 2 |
| Mexico | 2 |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 |
| Ireland | 2 |
| Bulgaria | 2 |
| Russia | 2 |
| Finland | 2 |
| Italy | 2 |
| Jersey | 1 |
| Bhutan | 1 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1 |
| Norway | 1 |
| Maldives | 1 |
| Japan | 1 |
| Peru | 1 |
| Greece | 1 |
| Palestinian Territory | 1 |
| (not set) | 1 |
| Kuwait | 1 |
| Poland | 1 |
| Slovenia | 1 |
| Pakistan | 1 |
2 comments:
You're blogging about your blog. That's a little self-serving, isn't it? :-)
Agreed. Though looking into Africa's internet situation was fun and interesting.
When are you going to guest write? I want to be able to heckle back at you. :)
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