internet developments in the world

Currently, the Internet has become a requirement for masyrakat in general because with the Internet, they can access and find all information around the world quickly and easily. Internet needs a very important so that an increasing number of internet users every year who are always growing throughout the world. Population of Internet users in the world in the year 2008 experts have exceeded 1 billion users. The development of rapid Internet makes the Internet user population figures in the world increased sharply. Countries with large population like China and India took part in the increase in Internet user population in the world. However, the population of the world's Internet users reached only 15 to 22 percent of the total world population of about 6.75 billion people.
Here are the data of Internet users in the world is divided by country and region:
A. The five countries with the largest population of Internet users:
1.Cina: 179.7 million
2.Amerika States: 163.3 million
3.Jepang: 60.0 million
4.Jerman: 37.0 million
5.Inggris Kingdom: 36.7 million
6.Perancis: 34.0 million
7.India: 32.1 million
B.Wilayah / continent with the largest Internet population:
Asia Pacific: 416 million (41.3%)
Europe: 283 million (28.0%)
North America: 185 million (18.4%)
Latin America: 75 million (7.4%)
Middle East and Africa: 49 million (4.8%)
Figures 1 billion Internet users are menajubkan sufficient numbers. Seeing these numbers could be huge momentum for unification sebgai community of Internet users around the world. And to keep in mind, this figure could still grow in line with the expected advances in technology can reduce operational costs in the internet. Thus, not only developed countries are able to utilize internet maksikanl, but also countries that are still developing and growing. One source in the internet also mention that the average age of the Internet users are users with the age of 15 years and over with the use of most personal computers (PC = Personal Computer) and enterprise computers.
While in Indonesia itself, the internet user is quite a bit. Different from his mobile phone users. This was stated by Minister of Communications and Information Mohammad Nuh. Of Indonesia's population today, Internet users is only about 14.4 million users, or only about 6% of the total Indonesian population. Internet users far behind than the mobile phone users by 60 million people from a total population of Indonesia. Therefore, not surprising that Indonesia is not included in the list of most Internet users despite Indonesia's population is big enough.
In order to increase the number of internet users in Indonesia, still requires hard work and tenacious effort to achieve it. However, along with the increasing need for information, the need will increase as the Internet, facilitating the growth of internet business in Indonesia. This effort is also strengthened with the help of the government through the development of fiber-optic cable along the East Indonesia 10,000 kilometers. As reported by Tempo, the total investment reaching Rp 4 trillion. Meanwhile, the Indonesian territory of West development efforts focused on the integration of several areas. This is because the Indonesian territory of West already have enough fiber optic cable, but still not tertintegrasi. With fiber optic cable investment was expected to unite or integrate Western and Eastern Indonesia in 2009.