The internet is a dream for entrepreneurs....it has spawned so many millionaires.
The world is only one third wired.
Imagine if the world's entire population has internet access.... how many more millionaires and billionaires will be made.
In a news article written in the Wall Street Journal titled "Tech Firms Discover Web Isn't World-Wide," Evelyn Rusli wrote:
"When Sumarni, a 39-year-old woman in a rural village in Indonesia, first cradled a smartphone in her hand about two years ago, her reaction was “bingung,” the word for “confused” in Indonesian.
As she looked at the Android phone's sleek, black surface, she asked herself: "Where are the buttons?" She was wary of holding it, since the smartphone was worth far more than her monthly income of roughly $60 from selling crackers and potato chips at a room in her house.
Now, though, Ms. Sumary is an enthusiastic participant in the world-wide digital economy. She proficiently uses her smart-phone's web browser, mobile messaging service WhatsApp and Facebook IInc.'s social-networking site, where she has 40 firends and launched an onlince shop with women's clothing and accessories.
That makes her a dream come true for technology companies as they try to reach the roughly two-thirds of the global population still without internet access."
Watch the video below about this Indonesian woman Sumarni who knew nothing about the internet:
http://www.wsj.com/video/in-indonesia-the-new-face-of-internet-evangelism/31E48409-D30D-48F9-BBC9-C066096A1591.html
The world is only one third wired.
Imagine if the world's entire population has internet access.... how many more millionaires and billionaires will be made.
In a news article written in the Wall Street Journal titled "Tech Firms Discover Web Isn't World-Wide," Evelyn Rusli wrote:
"When Sumarni, a 39-year-old woman in a rural village in Indonesia, first cradled a smartphone in her hand about two years ago, her reaction was “bingung,” the word for “confused” in Indonesian.
As she looked at the Android phone's sleek, black surface, she asked herself: "Where are the buttons?" She was wary of holding it, since the smartphone was worth far more than her monthly income of roughly $60 from selling crackers and potato chips at a room in her house.
Now, though, Ms. Sumary is an enthusiastic participant in the world-wide digital economy. She proficiently uses her smart-phone's web browser, mobile messaging service WhatsApp and Facebook IInc.'s social-networking site, where she has 40 firends and launched an onlince shop with women's clothing and accessories.
That makes her a dream come true for technology companies as they try to reach the roughly two-thirds of the global population still without internet access."
Watch the video below about this Indonesian woman Sumarni who knew nothing about the internet:
http://www.wsj.com/video/in-indonesia-the-new-face-of-internet-evangelism/31E48409-D30D-48F9-BBC9-C066096A1591.html
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