Given our levels of poverty, we can’t overcome our digital divide in a hurry. But the covid pandemic has disrupted offline inter-activity and turned the internet into a lifeline of sorts, accentuating the deprivation of those who have no access to it India’s count of active internet users aged five and above stood at 504 million last November, according to a report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India.
Children have been going online with much enthusiasm. As many as 71 million individuals in the age group of 5-11 were found to access the web.
By anecdotal evidence, even toddlers are kept occupied by kiddie fare dished out by various websites. So, our actual number of cyberspace visitors would be even higher.
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