Answer the following questions in your own words: Region: South America Discussi

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Answer the following questions in your own words:

Region: South America

Discussion of the mobile computing issues in the region and countries within the region. (Could be limited to 6 countries based on NRI: 3 highest and 3 lowest in South America).

(lowest) Bolivia, Paraguay and Guyana and (highest) Uruguay, Chile, and Argentina,

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Explanation / Answer

South America comprises 6% of the total global population (United Nations, 2017), with 7% internet users (INTERNETWORLDSTATS, 2017), and 7% of total mobile connections (GSMA Intelligence, 2017).

Paraguay

It has mere 47% internet penetration (INTERNETWORLDSTATS, 2017), 47% social media users (Facebook; Tencent, 2017), and 113% mobile subscriptions (GSMA Intelligence, 2017). The internet users have risen by 10% while mobile users fell by 2%. There is fall in laptop and desktop sales by 23% to 2016 sales (STATCOUNTER, 2017).

Guyana

It has mere 44% internet penetration (INTERNETWORLDSTATS, 2017), 44% social media users (Facebook; Tencent, 2017), and 90% mobile subscriptions (GSMA Intelligence, 2017). The internet users have risen by 15% while mobile users have risen by 7%. There is fall in laptop and desktop sales by 14% to 2016 sales (STATCOUNTER, 2017).

Bolivia

Bolivia has mere 48% internet penetration (INTERNETWORLDSTATS, 2017), 48% social media users (Facebook; Tencent, 2017), and 97% mobile subscriptions (GSMA Intelligence, 2017). The internet users have risen by 26% while mobile users have remained unchanged. There is fall in laptop and desktop sales to 2016 sales (STATCOUNTER, 2017).

Argentina

Argentina has 79% internet penetration (INTERNETWORLDSTATS, 2017), 70% social media users (Facebook; Tencent, 2017), and 145% mobile subscriptions (GSMA Intelligence, 2017). The internet users have remain unchanged viz a viz 2016 but other metrics have risen. On the basis of GSMA mobile connectivity index, it scores 43.75 in mobile network infrastructure and overall index score of 62.91.

Chile

Chile has 77% internet penetration (INTERNETWORLDSTATS, 2017), 71% social media users (Facebook; Tencent, 2017), and 142% mobile subscriptions (GSMA Intelligence, 2017). The internet users have grown 8% viz a viz 2016. There is fall in laptop and desktop sales to 2016 sales by 16% (STATCOUNTER, 2017).

Uruguay

Uruguay has 72% internet penetration (INTERNETWORLDSTATS, 2017), 72% social media users (Facebook; Tencent, 2017), and 156% mobile subscriptions (GSMA Intelligence, 2017). The internet users have grown 14% and mobile subscriptions fell by 2% viz a viz 2016. There is fall in laptop and desktop sales to 2016 sales by 12% (STATCOUNTER, 2017).

It can be seen that in low NRI countries the issues are severe than high NRI countries owing to lesser penetration of mobile computing services.

References

Facebook; Tencent. (2017).

GSMA Intelligence. (2017). We are social analysis... GSMA Intelligence.

INTERNETWORLDSTATS. (2017).

STATCOUNTER. (2017).

United Nations. (2017). US Census Bureau.

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