Internet usage and Maslows hierachy

Mats Jansson  May 25 2008 07:19:58 AM

Maslows hiearchy of needs, a theory that You learned in school, was stating that the most important things in live is food and warmth. On the top things like career. How does this fit in to the mordern society.
Where does Internet usage come in and what steeres this.


In China there is over 210000 internetusers, just the same number as in US. But in penetration of the country it is barely 16%, where US have over 70 % penetration. Sweden is a little bit ahead of US with 77 %. This is fact from the Internet World Stats .  Africa in common has a penetration of 5.3 %, and Asia 13.7 %. What can we leard here? The internet usage can be used to measure the wealth of a country, and it is placed in the topmost half of the hiearchy. The poorer country the less internetusers. For the human it is almost hte same. Food, of course comes ahead of computers.
Deter is thou strage figures in the statistics. Somalia one of the worlds poorest countries, with 9.7 mil. inhabitans has 94000 internetusers. Liberia has 1000.
One other refection is that these countries can be a enormous market for IT- industrie. When the countries has reached a step further due to Maslow. China is there and, but still has a big share left to go with 15.9 %.  There is over 1 bil. people i China without internet. And IBM, probably without a PC, and software. Notes has 150 milj users, how about getting som from China or Africa, 5 % from China is a substatial raise.

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