Covid drives Internet uptake but many are still left behind – ITU

Millions of people became new Internet users in the past two years, but over a third of the world’s population has still never gone online, according to new statistics from the ITU.
The UN’s telecoms body identified what it terms a Covid connectivity boost, which pushed the number of people online to 4.9 million this year from 4.1 million in 2019, many of them driven by the need to work remotely, home educate, and access essential services, including news, health updates, online bank