Internet in Peru
Population | 25,700,000 |
Rural population < /br>(% of total pop.), 1999 | 27.58 |
GDP per capita (Purchasing Power Parity, PPP) (US$) | US$4,797 |
Global Competitiveness Index Ranking (2001-02) | 55 |
UNDP Human Dvlpmnt. Index Ranking (2001, adjusted to GITR* sample) | 52 |
Main telephone lines/100 inhabitants | 6.37 |
Telephone faults/100 main telephone lines | 17.11 |
Internet hosts/10,000 inhabitants | 4.17 |
Personal Computers/100 inhabitants | 3.51 |
Piracy rate (%) | 61.00 |
% PCs connected to Internet | 1.03 |
Internet users per host | 43.34 |
Internet users/100 inhabitants | 1.59 |
Cell phone subscribers/100 inhabitants | 4.01 |
* Global Information Technology Report
Source: Center for International Development at Harvard University
Articles, Papers & Books
- .pe Center for International Development at Harvard University, PDF
- Peru: Internet for the People IDB Magazine
- Providing Content and Facilitating Social Change First Monday, 2000
- Reflections of Peru's Web Pioneer Wired, 12/10/01
Digital Divide, Digital Inclusion, Universal
Service
- Acercando la educación en el Perú via satélite: Proyecto HUASCARAN El Portal de La Brecha Digital
- Asociación Cabinas Públicas
- Asociación Especializada para el Desarrollo Sostenible La Unión, Arequipa
- Cabinas Net
- Electronic Media in Rural Development Based on Case Material from Peru Van Koert, University of Amsterdam
- Fondo de Inversión en Telecomunicaciones FITEL
- ITDG Soluciones Prácticas para la Pobreza Educación de Calidad
- Progressio Fighting Technology Poverty
- Red Científica Peruana RCP
- Systematization of the Peruvian Scientific Network Experience José Soriano, INET 1996
News & Publications
- PC World-Peru
- Yachay Red Científica Peruana
Organizations & Regulations
Statistics & Analysis
- Communications Peru Information from the CIA World Factbook
- Doing e-business in Perú Ebusinessforum.com