According to Graham (2005), Web 2.0 is democratic. Is it? A 2002 study revealed that over 55% of all web content was in English. Considering this, how democratic is the web for English illiterates? And this is just taking into account those who have broadband. Despite MIT's laudable OLPC project, many in the developing world have never heard of Web 2.0 much less participated in it.
Graham, P. (2005) Web 2.0, http://www.paulgraham.com/web20.html
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