Cuba calls for democracy on the Internet
Speech by Cuban Communications Minister, Ignacio Gonzalez Planas
16 November 2005 
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Quick facts:
— The United States and Canada have 74 computers and 60 fixed telephone lines per 100 inhabitants. In Africa there are 1.76 computers and 3.09 fixed lines for the same number of persons.

— Only 15% of the planet’s 6 billion inhabitants have access to the Internet. Of those, 51.9% are in the United States, Canada and Europe, and only 2.5% are in Africa.

— More than half of the world’s population has no telephone access, a technology invented more than a century ago. Forty percent of telephone lines are in only 23 developed countries, where less than 15% of the world’s population lives.