World Internet Project report 2010

Summary report
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22 March 2010The World Internet Project has released its second annual global findings on the impact of online technology - a five-continent collaboration creating an international picture of change produced by the Internet. The World Internet Project Report includes new findings about how the Internet is used and how it affects a variety of beliefs, attitudes, and behavior around the world.

The World Internet Project (WIP) is a major, international, collaborative project looking at the social, political and economic impact of the Internet and other new technologies. Conceived as the study of the Internet that should have been conducted of television in its early days, the WIP believes that the Internet's influence will ultimately be far greater than television. Whereas television has mostly been about entertainment, the Internet has the potential to transform how the world plays, works and learns.

This document is a summary of the full report which is currently only available for puchase.

Image: Mikey G Ottawa  / flickr

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