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Net deficit

Published on
July 23, 1999
Last updated
May 27, 2015

Censorship, access restrictions and high prices are stunting the growth of the internet in the Middle East and North Africa. But its value as an education and information tool will ensure its eventual ubiquity, according to Human Rights Watch, a monitoring organisation based in New York. Full report available at www.hrw.org/advocacy/internet/mena/index.htm

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