comScore Networks, a global information provider and consultancy to which leading companies turn for consumer behavior insight, issued a press release yesterday claiming that 694 million people, age 15+, used the Internet worldwide from all locations in March 2006. Read the full press release.
A few notes:
- The figure excludes traffic from public computers such as internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs, segments of internet usage which are much more prominent in the third world than they are in Western countries and which reportedly are on the rise dramatically (especially mobile phones).
- The figure pertains only to people 15 years of age or older
- The 694 million people who use the internet represent 14% of the world’s population which is 15 years of age or older
- The online audience in the U.S. represents less than a quarter of the worldwide online audience — major Asian countries such as China, Japan, and South Korea make up more than 25% of the worldwide online audience.
I believe that the internet provides today's church with a historic opportunity .... to tell the old, old story of Jesus and His love in ways which could only have been imagined in times past. The objective of this website is to explore the various ways in which today's technology can be used to spread the gospel around the world.
