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Yahoo! Co-Founder Jerry Yang Keynotes IGF Conference in Egypt
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While industry analysts estimate that about 1.6 billion people are on the Internet today, this still leaves three out of every four people on this planet without access.
This Sunday, at the Internet Governance Forum’s annual meeting, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang delivered a keynote address to discuss the impact of the Internet on people’s lives, the need to get the next billion people online and the importance of providing those next billion–in emerging markets and beyond–with locally relevant content and communications tools.
“The Internet isn’t just about getting as many people online as possible,” said Jerry Yang. “But making sure that once they’re online, they have something productive to do, something to gain, something meaningful to experience.”
The IGF meeting took place in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, and you can watch the full opening session and keynotes here. Jerry’s speech starts at about 59 minutes into the opening session, directly after Tim Berners-Lee.
In addition to the IGF keynote, Jerry is meeting with customers, employees and both local and U.S. government officials while in the region.
Yahoo! recently closed the acquisition of Maktoob, the largest Arabic-language Internet site. According to the World Bank, there are more than 320 million Arabic speakers worldwide, while less than one per cent of all online content is in Arabic. The partnership between Maktoob and Yahoo! aims to strengthen and support Arabic content on the Internet, adapting current products to the Arabic language while also working with local developers to create new and compelling products.
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