The internet is not that global after all

Extracted 25JUL2011 from http://www.economist.com/node/18956576

THE internet is flattening the world. Or so they say. Yet new statistics from the OECD, a rich-country think-tank, and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) show that the global “network of networks” is shaped by local forces...

BCG, for its part, in a new study of 46 countries, looks at how businesses, consumers and governments use the net. The data show that different countries have distinct internet economies... The differences spring from a country’s political and economic heritage.