MANILA, Philippines–"The Internet remains inaccessible to seven out of 10 Filipinos, despite the country’s self-proclaimed status as the world’s center for social media, a new report by a United Nations (UN) agency showed.
The Broadband Commission for Digital Development in its latest report urged developing nations like the Philippines to take steps to encourage Internet usage, which has proven to be a significant contributor to economic growth.
A study done on the Philippines showed that broadband adoption contributes 0.32 percent of annual gross domestic product (GDP). “Given the importance of mobile in the economy of the Philippines, this would account for 6.9 percent of all GDP growth for the economy during the past decade,” the Broadband Commission said.
The findings on the Philippines, first reported by enterprise IT news site Newsbytes.ph, were published in the agency’s annual report made public on Sunday.
“Broadband is today a critical infrastructure in the growing global digital economy, and countries that fail to invest in broadband infrastructure risk being excluded from today’s online economy, as well as the next stage of the digital revolution and future Internet,” the report read."
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