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In a world with over 200 countries, more that 6700 languages, using 147 currencies and having 24 different time zones
With the Right Tools and the Right People, every business can do business or trade internationally. Computer offers the opportunity for every business to have the rights to perform their practices in a global scale. Generally speaking, the Internet is a communication tool that is powerful enough to reach to any Internet user on this planet. Targeted audience can be anybody. At any time anywhere, one can reach out to anyone that has access to the Internet. Putting information on a local newspaper, targeted readers are the locals, but putting information on the Internet, the targeted readers can be the whole world.
With the Right Tools and the Right People, Language and Culture Gap no longer occur. As each user is contributing and accessing information from this pool. And now, this pool includes users from different countries, using different languages. Information on the Internet is no longer restricted to English. Many research show that more and more foreign language web sites are out on the internet, as the internet is first being used by English speaking nations and now being widely adapted by nations (PEOPLE) from all over the world.
Chart of WWW user
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U.S.
W. Europe
ROW
Asia/Pacific
Japan
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48%
28%
9%
8%
7%
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U.S.
W. Europe
ROW
Asia/Pacific
Japan
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38%
36%
9%
9%
8%
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U.S. Still has the highest percentage of internet users due to 70 % of all web sites are based in the United States, but that is changing. According to IDC, China will soon become the largest IT market (excluding Japan), In 1999, the IT market in China was worth $11 billions, increased to $14 billion in 2000, and will be tripled by 2004 (IDC).
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