“We have just made the Internet much more accessible to millions of people in regions such as Asia, the Middle East and Russia.”
The body in charge of assigning the world’s Internet users their online addresses on Friday said it had agreed to allow the use of any of the world’s scripts, no longer just the Latin alphabet which could lead to a dramatic rise in the number of Internet users.
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Last month, the U.S. government agreed to changes that in effect meant ICANN would no longer report solely to the United States.
Tags: digital divide, Internet
