"There is a growing gap between those who are able to easily connect to the world march ; and those who remain out of it. For these, a large number of social, economic and political opportunities are inaccessible" -Mark Graham Africans are among the least connected to the Internet in the world, according to a map made by two researchers at the university of Oxford in the UK. Ralph Straumann and Mark Graham identified on a world map all the most disconnected countries worldwide Internet using data from the World Bank Development Indicators 2013 and those of Natural Earth. This map highlights the most areas that are hardly connected to the internet and by extension that are" largely kept away from participation in cultural, educational, political, and economic" that accompanies this tool. According to the study published on Geonet, the center of gravity of this low internet access is in sub-Saharan Africa. In this region
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