The “Internet”, literally an interconnected system of computer networks, has become almost synonymous with its most visible expression, the World Wide Web, which was developed in the early 1990s. The growth and development of this information technology, including e-mail, has been phenomenal, but still only reaches 16.6% of the global population with vast differences among nations. A publication by World Alliance of YMCAs

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