Did you know?

Computers are getting faster

In 1982 computers could run

11,200,000Instructions per

second!

59,450,000,000

In 2008...

That is over 5000 times faster!

What will it be in 2020?

What will we be able to accomplish?

A modern processor has about 291,000,000 transistors

Computers are made up of millions of transistors

It was about the size an adults

hand.

The first transistor was made in 1947

It would take up 396 KM2

For a single processor

If transistors were still this size..

Or 36,644 football pitches!

It is predicted that 85% of UK households will have a PC by

2011

In Sierra Leone only 27% of the population can read

If this school was Sierra Leone then all of year 7,8,9 and 10 would not be able to read...

How would your life be different without ICT?

Did you know?

In 2006 83% of young people used the internet regularly

Compared to 68% of adults aged between 45 and 54

But only 15% of over 65’s....

The number of people who used online shopping increased

by 25% in 2008

25% of high street stores may go out of business in 2009-

2010

How will over 65’s do their shopping in 2010?

Did you know?

The average teenage IPod has 1,770 songs

on it.

800 of which are illegal

96% of all teenagers copy music

80% say they would pay for a music

subscription service

On average, a adults IPod has 3,452 songs

64% of songs are never played!

1062 songs never get played

How many of them are illegal?

A average teenager has enough music to fill 110 vinyl

recordsThis would weigh 22Kg

Or the same as a 7 year old child!

Did you know?

It is estimated that in 2005 Google could search 8.2 billion

pages.

That number will double every 16 months.

If this continues then in 2021 the number of pages indexed

will be49,200,000,000

That would be 7 pages for

every person on the planet!

Google takes about 0.2 seconds to perform a search

over billions of pages

If you spent 10 minutes looking up information in a

library...

You could of done 3000

Google searches

It is estimated that there are 2 billion searches on Google

every day.

That is 700,000,000,000 searches every year!

According to Google each search uses 1KJ of energy.

That is the equivalent of 4,282,655 mars bars per day.

Only one in four Africans have access to electricity

How can they be part of a digital world?

What can we do about it?

Did you know?

In 2008...

248 million people used the internet in North America

384 million in Europe

578 million in Asia

In 2008...33% of people in Europe have

access to the internet

But only 14% in Asia

3,476,000,000 of people living in Asia have no internet access

Every day 210 billion emails were sent

There are 1.3 billion email users in the world

That is 161 emails for every email user!

70% of all emails are spam

That means 147 billion spam emails are sent every day!

That is enough for 21 spam emails for every person on the

planet!

Did you know?

Technology is changing at an exponential rate

The digital divide prevents many people making the best

use of technology

What should we do?

What can you do?

Did you know?You can make a difference

Support campaigns like these and make a difference!

http://laptop.org/en/

http://www.campaignforeducation.org/

Did you know?You do now!