Thabo Mbeki Quotes

Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

A world in which we can fully experience the benefits that a connected society brings remains out of reach. Vested interests all too often feel threatened by the modern world, and they are holding Scotland back. We want to change that.

The Internet can bring us much closer to the developed world.

The rise of broadband and growing ubiquity of Internet access excites me the most. The world changes a lot when, no matter where you are - in the middle of a deserted highway or in a bustling city - you can get high speed broadband access.

Broadband eliminates so many barriers to entry for so many different people that it's actually become a barrier to entry in and of itself if you're not getting online on a regular basis.

The Internet has become important on the world's stage.

With the Internet, information is knowledge and knowledge is freedom.

I believe that interconnectivity is a human right.

From day one, the Internet was a public square, and the providers merely connected everyone, rather than regulating who spoke with whom. That allowed the Internet to evolve into a form of basic infrastructure, used by over a billion people today.

The Internet and digital technologies can and will boost economic, social, and political development, including by vastly expanding the capacity of individuals to enjoy their right to freedom of speech and expression, which is key to empowering human rights.

I think the Internet is a key driver of opening up opportunities, which impacts many things, including development - I will repeat that I am not a fan of looking at technology or the Internet in Africa through the lens of development - we love the Internet for sake of the Internet.

I think the whole world has been able to utilize the Internet. I feel like you don't have to be from a certain soil.

Over the course of my career as an engineer-turned-tech evangelist, I've had the privilege of travelling the world and seeing the extraordinary impact of mobile on people and communities across a broad range of cultures and socio-economic strata. In many ways, mobile is a democratizing force. It empowers us. It inspires us. It extends our reach.

More and more of the world's population is gaining access to the same kind of computing power and connectivity that has transformed daily life for developed nations.

While the Internet is important for us, India is also necessary for the Internet with its 1.2 billion population.

In theory, the Internet should bring us all closer together and slowly eliminate our differences.

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

Falling entry barriers and lower access costs have significantly democratised participation, whether in production or consumption.

We like to think of the Internet as a border-busting technology.

I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

Broadband access is the great equalizer, leveling the playing field so that every willing and able person, no matter their station in life, has access to the information and tools necessary to achieve the American Dream.

We want to make it so that anyone, anywhere - a child growing up in rural India who never had a computer - can go to a store, get a phone, get online, and get access to all of the same things that you and I appreciate about the Internet.

Eight billion people will have Internet access by 2020.