Daily Monitor
Tuesday February 23 2021
Summary
This slot takes a median 53 per cent of internet users. The next biggest category use internet to get information about government services.
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Majority of Africans who use internet utilize it for social and entertainment purposes. They use it to stay in touch with family and friends. A Spring 2017 Global Attitudes Survey Report put the median Sub-Saharan African population who use internet for this purpose at 85 per cent. The same report highlights the next popular purpose of the internet in Sub-Saharan Africa to be the search for information and news about politics.
This slot takes a median 53 per cent of internet users. The next biggest category use internet to get information about government services. Their place occupies a median of 51 per cent on the scale of internet users. Utilisation of internet for career and commerce takes a median of 26 per cent of the internet users on this same scale. If the activity of making and receiving payments is excluded, the median population of internet users focusing on career and commerce declines to a miserable 19 per cent. These mainly use the internet to buy products, take classes and look for jobs and apply for them.