(These are excerpts from a forthcoming research paper, but given the events in Tajikistan I thought I’d post the descriptives.)

Tajikistan internet use, as of mid-2011:

Aware of Internet	44%
Of total, Adopted Internet	24%
Of total, Use Internet                                                      Never	90%
Less than monthly	2%
Monthly	3%
Daily	5%

So what do those daily users do online?

Internet Activities of Daily Users

Country	Email	News	Read blog	Comment blog	Videos	Music	Social networking sites
Tajikistan	86	76	45	43	43	53	76

That’s a lot of blogging/commenting! Now, granted, that’s like 2% of the total population… but still impressive.

 Tool Awareness and Use

Country

YouTube

Twitter

Facebook

Odnoklassniki

vKontake

Skype

Blog

Awareness/Use

A

U

A

U

A

U

A

U

A

U

A

U

A

U

Tajikistan

46

30

33

13

58

14

76

65

60

46

55

39

48

23

Granted, this was over a year ago, but even then, only half of DAILY Internet users knowing what YouTube is is sort of surprising. However, Odnoklassniki and vKontake are quite popular.

 

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