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Digital Fairness vs. Facebook’s Dream of World Domination

Harvard Business Review

Businesses like Facebook are filling an internet access gap in emerging markets that others, including the public sector, may simply never be able to address. Despite having 200 million internet users at the end of 2014, India is not even among the top 10 e-commerce markets in the world, according to a recent eMarketer report.

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There’s a Gender Gap in Internet Usage. Closing It Would Open Up Opportunities for Everyone

Harvard Business Review

The International Telecommunications Union reports that the proportion of women using the internet is 12% lower than the proportion of men; this gender gap widens to 32.9% In developing countries, those differences are even greater. But the gender gap problem doesn’t stop there. in the least developed countries.