Malaysia & The Internet

I’ve had to do quite a few presentations to clients recently about the Malaysia & the internet. So i ended up creating another blog, http://jermyntoh.blogspot.com/, which clients and colleagues could read ….. and i’m cross posting this in LJ
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Internet Penetration is at 60%!

Bench mark this Penetration Rate with:
Singapore – 53.2%
Taiwan – 67.4%
Hong Kong – 69.9%
Thailand – 13%

What I think is most significant is % each country contributes to % Users in Asia
China – 41.1%
Japan – 19.0%
India – 13.0%
South Korea – 6.8%
Indonesia – 4.3%
Vietname – 3.6%
Malaysia – 3.2%
Taiwan – 3%
Philippines – 3%
Hong Kong – 1.1%
Singapore – 0.5%

Asia represent 38.7% of Internet Users in the World
Source: http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats3.htm#asia

Some interesting articles about the role of the internet on the recent elections:
Malaysia opposition win shows power of cyberspace
http://ca.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idCAKLR6139420080309

From www.america.gov … With about 500,000 active bloggers, Malaysia boasts one of the largest online communities in the world after Indonesia and the European Union.
http://www.america.gov/st/democracy-english/2008/April/20080403175441esnamfuak0.1705591.html

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