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World Wide Web, not Wealthy Western Web

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September 30, 2016
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  1. View Slide

  2. World-Wide Web, not Wealthy Western Web
    Bruce Lawson, Opera Software

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  3. My pledge to the Web
    ▪ Never gonna give you up
    ▪ Never gonna let you down
    ▪ Never gonna run around and desert you
    ▪ Never gonna make you cry
    ▪ Never gonna say goodbye
    ▪ Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
    (Words and music Stock Aitken Waterman)

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  4. Make the web better for…
    Consumers Business owners The next 4 billion
    4bn
    Developers

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  6. ICT access by population
    Total 

    global population
    ~7.4 billion
    High-speed

    internet
    1.1 billion
    Total 

    internet users
    3.2 billion
    Mobile phones
    5.2 billion
    Within
    mobile coverage
    7 billion
    Source: World Bank, Digital Dividends.

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  7. The world’s offline population
    Total 

    internet users
    3.2 billion
    High-speed

    internet
    1.1 billion
    India
    1.063 billion
    Countries
    outside of
    the top 20
    China
    755 million
    Indonesia
    213 million
    Pakistan
    165 million
    Bangladesh
    148 million
    Nigeria
    111 million
    Brazil
    98 million
    Ethiopia
    95 million
    Mexico
    70 million
    Congo, Dem. Rep.
    68 million
    Philippines
    63 million
    Russian Federation
    55 million
    Iran, Islamic Rep.
    54 million
    Myanmar
    53 million
    Vietnam
    52 million
    United States
    51 million
    Tanzania
    49 million
    Thailand
    48 million
    Egypt, Arab Rep.
    42 million
    Turkey
    41 million

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  8. WHERE WILL YOUR NEXT
    CUSTOMERS COME FROM?

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  16. Jon Hicks’ map

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  18. Black Friday + Cyber Monday
    @brucel
    $2.9Bn

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  19. Double 11 Day, 2014
    @brucel
    $9.2Bn
    Source: Nanjing Marketing Group, Q4 2014

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  20. Total online retail spending in China reached
    $307 billion in 2013 and is forecast to grow
    at a compound annual rate of nearly 20%
    until 2019, when it should exceed $1 trillion.

    $1 trillion by 2019
    - China Online Retail Forecast Forrester

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  22. in Indonesia 75% of users are on older 2G, or
    GSM/EDGE, networks,…
    more than half of Indonesian smartphone users
    said they experienced network problems daily.

    Indonesia
    - Measuring and improving network performance Ericsson, September 2014

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  23. SEA to be the fastest growing internet
    market in the world (~480m users by 2020);
    Indonesia fastest growing nation in the
    world.

    Indonesia
    - eConomy SEA - Google / Temasec (2016)

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  24. The Internet economy in SEA is expected to
    reach ~$200 billion by 2025 (6.5x increase
    over 10 years)

    South East Asia
    - eConomy SEA - Google / Temasec (2016)

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  26. 5 years ago a SIM cost
    @brucel
    $2000

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  27. August 2014
    @brucel
    $1.50
    - When a SIM Card Goes From $2,000 to $1.50 Bloomberg (29 Sept '14)

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  29. we expect the number of Internet users to at
    least double, from 190 million in 2014 to 400
    million in 2018 …
    We expect the Internet to contribute $200 billion
    to India’s GDP (5% of total GDP) by 2020.

    - Boston Consulting Group (BCG), 23 April 2015

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  30. WHAT DO THESE NATIONS
    HAVE IN COMMON?

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  31. 56% in emerging economies saw themselves first and
    foremost as global citizens rather than national
    citizens.
    In Nigeria (73%), China (71%), Peru (70%) and
    India (67%) the data is particularly marked.

    - Globescan poll for BBC, April 2016

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  32. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-36139904

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  34. Among the country’s roughly 690 million
    Internet users, 620 million now go online
    using a mobile device.

    China
    - MIT Technology Review (June 2016)

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  35. 1. google.com
    2. facebook.com
    3. youtube.com
    4. wikipedia.org
    5. yahoo.com
    Top domains: USA
    6. twitter.com
    7. wellhello.com
    8. addthis.com
    9. wordpress.com
    10. apple.com

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  36. 1. Apple iPhone
    2. Apple iPad
    3. Samsung Galaxy S
    Duos 2
    4. Samsung Galaxy S3
    5. Samsung Galaxy Grand
    Prime
    Top handsets: USA
    6. Samsung Galaxy Grand
    Neo Plus
    7. Samsung Galaxy grand
    Neo GT
    8. Nokia Asha 201
    9. Samsung Galaxy Note III
    10.TracFone LG 306G

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  37. 1. facebook.com
    2. google.com
    3. google.co.id
    4. wordpress.com
    5. youtube.com
    Top domains: Indonesia
    6. blogspot.co.id
    7. wikipedia.org
    8. indosat.com
    9. liputan6.com
    10. xl.co.id

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  38. 1. Nokia X201
    2. Nokia Asha 210
    3. Nokia C3-00
    4. Generic WAP
    5. Nokia Asha 205.1
    Top handsets: Indonesia
    6. Samsung Galaxy V
    SM-G313HZ
    7. Nokia 215
    8. Nokia X2-02
    9. Samsung GTS5260 Star 2
    10. Nokia 5130 XpressMusic

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  39. 1. google.com.ng
    2. facebook.com
    3. google.com
    4. naij.com
    5. youtube.com
    Top domains: Nigeria
    6. bbc.com
    7. opera.com
    8. wikipedia.org
    9. goal.com
    10. waptrick.com

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  40. 1. Nokia Asha 200
    2. Nokia Asha 210
    3. Nokia X2-01
    4. Nokia C3-00
    5. TECNO P5
    Top handsets: Nigeria
    6. Nokia Asha 205
    7. Nokia Asha 201
    8. TECNO M3
    9. Infinix Hot Note X551
    10. Infinix Hot 2 X510

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  41. SUPPLY-SIDE
    IMPROVEMENTS

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  42. Making the web work on
    lower-spec devices

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  43. Progressive Web Apps
    ▪ “install” to the home screen
    ▪ have their own icon (defined by the web developer)
    ▪ can launch full-screen, portrait or landscape
    ▪ but “live” on the Web

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  44. Most installed apps are not used often. The
    average app user has 36 apps installed on his
    or her smartphone.
    Only one in four of those apps are used daily,
    while 1 in 4 apps are never used.

    Native Apps take up space
    - How Consumers Really Find and Use Your Apps (Google research, May 2015)

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  46. Downloading a typical app with 20 MB APK
    can take more than 30 minutes on a 2G
    network, and the download is likely to fail
    before completion, due to the flaky nature of
    the network.

    - How we built Facebook Lite for every Android phone and network

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  47. With space this limited, the user is comparing
    their personal photo collection with the adoption
    of a new app on their phone.

    - Mobile App Developers Are Suffering

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  48. Africa: mobile phone use

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  49. we didn’t stand a chance as we were fighting
    with both our competitors and other apps for a
    few more MB of room inside people’s phones.

    Birdly
    - Why you shouldn’t bother creating a mobile app

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  50. https://dev.opera.com/articles/pwa-nigeria-kenya-interview/
    “Nigerians are extremely
    data sensitive.”
    “People side-load apps
    and other content from
    third parties [or via]
    Xender.”
    Constance Okoghenun:
    @brucel

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  51. “With PWAs […], without
    the download overhead of
    native apps […]
    developers in Nigeria can
    now give a great and
    up-to-date experience to
    their users.”
    @brucel

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  52. Early progressive web apps in Asia & Africa
    @brucel

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  53. Manifest file
    stores metadata for your web app:
    icons, description, colors, and related info that
    lets browsers create high-quality experiences
    for the launcher icon, task switcher, and splash
    screen.

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  54. href="/manifest.json">
    all in the

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  55. {
    "name": "Simple web app demo",
    "short_name": "Demo",
    "icons": [
    {
    "src": "icon-medium.png",
    "sizes": "96x96"
    },{
    "src": "icon-large.png",
    "sizes": "192x192"
    }
    ],
    "theme_color": "#3F51B5",
    "background_color": "#F5F5F5",
    "display": "standalone",
    "orientation": "portrait",
    "start_url": "/simple-demo/?home=true"
    }

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  56. STARTING A PWA

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  58. {
    "name": "Simple web app demo",
    "short_name": "Demo",
    "icons": [
    {
    "src": "icon-medium.png",
    "sizes": "96x96"
    },{
    "src": "icon-large.png",
    "sizes": "192x192"
    }
    ],
    "theme_color": "#3F51B5",
    "background_color": "#F5F5F5",
    "display": "fullscreen",
    "orientation": "portrait",
    "start_url":
    "/simple-demo/?home=true"
    }

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  59. {
    "name": "Air Horner",
    "short_name": "Air Horner",
    "icons": [
    {
    "src": "icon-medium.png",
    "sizes": "96x96"
    },{
    "src": "icon-large.png",
    "sizes": "192x192"
    }
    ],
    "theme_color": "#2196F3",
    "background_color": "#2196F3",
    "display": "fullscreen",
    "orientation": "portrait",
    "start_url": "/?home=true"
    }

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  60. {
    "name": "Simple web app demo",
    "short_name": "Demo",
    "icons": [
    {
    "src": "icon-medium.png",
    "sizes": "96x96"
    },{
    "src": "icon-large.png",
    "sizes": "192x192"
    }
    ],
    "theme_color": "#990000",
    "background_color": "#DFCFAF",
    "display": "fullscreen",
    "orientation": "landscape",
    "start_url": "/inbox-attack/?home=true"
    }
    https://andreasbovens.github.io/inbox-attack/

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  61. Tools
    Manifest Generator http://brucelawson.github.io/manifest/ 

    Manifest validator manifest-validator.appspot.com

    List of PWAs pwa.rocks

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  62. {
    "name": "Simple web app demo",
    "short_name": "Demo",
    "icons": [
    {
    "src": "icon-medium.png",
    "sizes": "96x96"
    },{
    "src": "icon-large.png",
    "sizes": "192x192"
    }
    ],
    "theme_color": "#3F51B5",
    "background_color": "#F5F5F5",
    "display": "standalone",
    "orientation": "portrait",
    "start_url":
    "/simple-demo/?home=true"
    }

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  63. Flipkart Lite
    ▪ 40% returning visitors week over week

    ▪ +63% conversions from Home screen visits

    ▪ 3x time spent on FlipKart Lite

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  64. We want Flipkart Lite available on every
    phone over every flaky network in India

    Engagement + Reach
    - Amar Nagaram (Flipkart engineering)

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  65. Progressive Web Apps
    ▪ live on the server so no update distribution lag

    ▪ require no app store or gatekeeper

    ▪ are a normal website on browsers such as Opera Mini,
    Safari, Windows phones

    ▪ searchable, indexable, linkable

    ▪ can work offline

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  66. GOING OFFLINE

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  70. Also with Service Worker
    ▪ Push Notifications

    ▪ Background Sync

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  71. Responsive images

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  73. ▪ srcset attribute
    ▪ x descriptor
    ▪ w descriptor
    ▪ sizes attribute
    Video, tutorials
    New HTML thingies

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  74. Average Bytes per Page by Content Type
    Total
    2296 kB
    Stylesheets
    76 kB
    HTML
    66 kB
    Images
    1,457 kB
    Other
    4 kB
    Video
    203 kB
    Fonts
    126 kB
    Scripts
    358 kB
    Data: httparchive.org, 15 April 2016 (Alexa Top 1,000,000 Sites)

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  75. Responsive images saved
    - Mike Babb
    @brucel
    70%

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  76. 500MB data: hours worked

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  77. NETWORK PROBLEMS

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  78. While cellular networks have improved…
    smartphone users are still facing issues as
    frequently as they did in 2013.

    Networks Notworks
    - Experience shapes mobile customer loyalty - Ericsson Consumer Labs (August 2016)

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  79. WHAT ARE PROXY
    BROWSERS?

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  82. Meet Thor

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  83. Stop! Hammer Time

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  84. The average load time for mobile sites is 19 seconds
    over 3G connections.
    53% of mobile site visits are abandoned if pages take
    longer than 3 seconds to load.

    Testing in India
    - The need for mobile speed: How mobile latency impacts publisher revenue (Google Double-
    click)

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  85. ad-blocking

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  86. Opera Mini consumes on an average 14%
    less battery and 89% less data when
    compared to other mobile browsers.

    Testing in India
    - Cigniti Technologies (Chrome, UC browser, CM browser and UC Mini on WiFi, 2G and 3G
    networks in India, March April 2015)

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  87. A third of Indian citizens, especially in the rural
    parts of the country remains without power, as
    does 6% of the urban population.
    During peak hours the shortage was 9.8 percent.

    Battery life matters
    - Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (2012)

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  88. Nearly 30 per cent of our annual smartphone unit
    sales have power banks bundled in,
    "Two years ago, less than 1 per cent of our annual
    smartphone sales had power banks bundled in."

    Battery life matters 2
    - Business Insider (October 2015) (The Mobile Store, India's largest cellphone retailer.)

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  89. 120k transactions/second
    23 PB last month

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  90. Image: CERN
    https://home.cern/about/updates/2013/10/cern-releases-photos-under-creative-commons-licence

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  94. In India, only 96k of the 736k cell towers are
    3G enabled ... only 35k of those towers have
    a fiber optic connection to the backbone,

    Single connection
    - India's mobile Internet: The revolution has begun Avdendus (2013)

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  96. Design considerations for
    developing markets

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  100. Tech constraints for lower-
    spec markets

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  101. Everything happens on
    the server
    ▪ Everything needs user interaction
    ▪ Everything needs a server roundtrip
    ▪ JS on page load runs for 5 seconds
    ▪ JS-only APIs do NOT work
    More: Opera Mini and JavaScript.

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  102. Design won't always be
    preserved
    ▪ No CSS rounded corners or gradients
    ▪ Animations (CSS/ SVG) show only first frame
    ▪ No web fonts
    ▪ Don't use icon fonts; use SVG
    Make SVG icons (even more!) responsive.

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  104. we've launched our first Holy Grail app into
    production! … It looks exactly the same as
    the app it replaced, however initial pageload
    feels drastically quicker

    Holy Grail App
    - AirBnB

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  105. because we serve up real HTML instead of waiting for
    the client to download JavaScript before rendering.
    Plus, it is fully crawlable by search engines. … It feels
    5x faster.

    Holy Grail App #2
    - AirBnB

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  106. Rise of The Smartphones

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  107. India emerged as the world's third largest
    smartphone market after the U.S. and China.
    Total smartphone shipments are expected to
    increase to reach more than 150 million
    units in 2018.

    - Busiess Korea (8 May '15)

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  108. Smartphone shipments to the Middle East
    and Africa saw unprecedented year-on-year
    growth of 83% in 2014… Feature phones
    have been hit hard … with shipments down
    4.5% year on year in 2014.

    - International Data Corporation (IDC) (26 Apr '15)

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  110. Bruce’s law of Smartness™

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  112. DEMAND-SIDE PROBLEMS

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  113. Smartphone growth?
    ▪ Global smartphone shipments fell 3 percent annually from
    345.0 million units in Q1 2015 to 334.6 million in Q1 2016.
    Strategy Analytics (28 April 2016)
    ▪ According to IDC, the market grew by 0.2 per cent year-on-
    year to 334.9 million units, marking “the smallest ever year-on-
    year growth on record”.
    Mobile World Live, 28 April 2016

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  114. Smartphone sales last Q
    Q2 2016 also “relatively flat”, up 0.3%
    from 2Q15 and up 3.1% from 333.1
    million in the first quarter of 2016.
    IDC Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, July 2016

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  116. Despite the fact that Africa has the lowest income per
    capita of any region, affordability was only identified
    as the most important barrier in one out of 13 markets
    in our survey.


    Africa: not just affordability
    - GSMA Consumer barriers to mobile internet adoption in Africa - July 2016

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  117. Network coverage was not perceived as an issue in most
    countries, reflecting the increasing availability of mobile
    networks. However, mobile broadband (3G or 4G)
    coverage remains low in most parts of Africa.


    Africa: not just networks
    - GSMA Consumer barriers to mobile internet adoption in Africa - July 2016

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  118. A lack of awareness and locally relevant content was
    considered the most important barrier to internet
    adoption in North Africa and the second biggest
    barrier in Sub-Saharan Africa.


    Lack of awareness/ content.
    - GSMA Consumer barriers to mobile internet adoption in Africa - July 2016

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  119. A lack of digital skills was identified as the biggest
    barrier to internet adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa
    and the second biggest in North Africa.


    Lack of digital skills
    - GSMA Consumer barriers to mobile internet adoption in Africa - July 2016

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  121. A lack of awareness and locally relevant content was the
    most commonly cited barrier to internet adoption: 72% of
    non-internet users across the six survey markets felt this
    was a barrier.


    Asia
    - GSMA Consumer barriers to mobile internet adoption in Asia - January 2016

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  122. 50% of websites worldwide are in English, a language
    spoken by only 10% of speakers in the survey countries. By
    way of contrast, only 2% of websites worldwide are in
    Mandarin and less than 0.1% are in Hindi.


    Asia
    - GSMA Consumer barriers to mobile internet adoption in Asia - January 2016

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  124. In Africa, 7 in 10 people who do not use the internet
    say they just don’t know how to use it, and almost 4 in
    10 say they do not know what the internet is.

    In high-income Poland and the Slovak Republic, one-
    fifth of adults cannot use a computer.

    Digital illiteracy?
    - World Bank

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  125. 41% do not use the internet at all, 53% do
    not have broadband access at home, and
    23% do not use cell phones.

    American seniors
    - Older Adults and Technology Use (Pew Research Centre, April 2014)

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  127. Video by ClubInternet, Pakistan. 

    Used by kind permission.
    http://clubinternet.co/
    https://vimeo.com/116787124

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  129. Digital Divide: Africa 2011-12
    Individuals who use the internet (%)
    0
    5
    10
    15
    20
    25
    Bottom Upper

    40% 60%
    Mature Young

    (45+) (15-24)
    Rural Urban Women Men

    Gender
    Location
    Age
    Income distribution

    (household)

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  130. Rural mobile internet users grew by a staggering 93% between
    December 2014-Dec 2015,
    yet only nine per cent of the hinterland has access to the
    technology.
    In comparison, 53% of urban areas had mobile internet
    connectivity and grew at 71% during the same period.

    Digital Divide (India)
    - Times of India, 3 Feb 1016

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  131. Making the internet universally accessible
    and affordable should be a global priority.

    World Bank

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  132. In Nigeria, the data needed to watch just 2
    minutes of online video a day can cost more
    than sending a child to school for a month.

    Nigeria
    - How To Make Internet Affordable

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  133. Digital products are taxed as luxury goods
    Import tariffs (%)
    0
    5
    10
    15
    20
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    Computers Laptops
    Computers and laptops

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  134. Digital products are taxed as luxury goods
    Import tariffs (%)
    0
    5
    10
    15
    20
    25
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    Mobile phones
    Mobile phones

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  136. • Settle on fair and transparent ICT taxes.
    • Get governments and donors to step up efforts.
    • Agree on “affordability”: 1 GB for 2%
    • Invest in public access solutions.
    • Make getting women online a top priority.
    Fast Africa

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  137. Online work can prove particularly
    beneficial for women, youth, older
    workers, and the disabled, who may
    prefer the flexibility of working from home
    or working flexible hours.

    Online work

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  138. In India… women are 62% less likely to use the
    internet than men. Many of the underlying
    reasons for this – affordability, skills and content
    – are the same as for men; they are simply felt
    more acutely by women.

    Gender divide
    - GSMA Consumer barriers to mobile internet adoption in Africa - July 2016

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  139. Rural Internet users are today almost
    exclusively male (98%)

    Rural India’s gender divide
    - Boston Consulting Group - The Rising Connected Consumer in Rural India
    July 2016

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  140. Women
    25%
    Men
    75%
    Total nonagricultural employment
    Women
    44% Men
    56%
    Online work (Elance)
    Web empowers women

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  141. Online work: Most important advantages
    Able to earn extra money
    Higher chances of getting
    higher earnings than in
    jobs offline
    Able to work from home 

    and work flexible hours
    Reduce time and 

    cost for job search
    Provide access to the 

    job market which 

    was limited before
    Higher chances of 

    getting a job that matches 

    my skills and interests
    0 10 20 30 40 50
    Men Women
    Percent of respondents

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  142. Online work: Most important disadvantages
    Payment is not 

    good enough
    Friends and family 

    do not understand 

    what I am doing
    Do not have any 

    social benefits
    Require access to an 

    online payment system
    Require access to internet
    Require internet and 

    computer skills
    The job is temporary, 

    and it is not for a 

    long-term career
    0 10 20 30 40
    Men Women
    Percent of respondents

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  144. The government of the Indian state of
    Kerala set up the Kudumbashree project to
    outsource information technology services
    to cooperatives of women from poor
    families; 90 percent of the women had not
    previously worked outside the home.

    “Prosperity of the family”

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  147. ▪ Progressive Enhancement!
    ▪ Feature detection
    ▪ Compress images, use responsive images
    ▪ Performance matters!
    ▪ Consider a Progressive Web App
    ▪ Test in Opera Mini
    What can YOU do?

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  148. Opera Mini: modes
    ▪ High mode: WebView (≈ 50% compression)

    ▪ Extreme mode: Server (up to 90% compression)

    ▪ iOS defaults to High mode

    ▪ Android defaults to Extreme mode (except Poland, USA,
    Sweden, Norway, Russia and Germany, which default to
    High)

    ▪ WindowsPhone, Feature Phones: Extreme mode only

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  149. Access to the internet is critical, but
    not sufficient

    World Bank:

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  150. the full benefits of the information and
    communications transformation will not be
    realized unless countries continue to improve their
    business climate, invest in people’s education and
    health, and promote good governance.

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  151. Developing countries are home to 94% of
    the global offline population.

    - State of Connectivity 2014, internet.org

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  152. an increase in Internet maturity similar to
    the one experienced in mature countries
    over the past 5 years creates an increase in
    real GDP per capita of $500 on average
    during this period.

    Internet matters
    - The Net’s sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity (McKinsey Global Institute)

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  153. It took the Industrial Revolution of the 19th
    century 50 years to produce the same result.

    Internet matters
    - The Net’s sweeping impact on growth, jobs, and prosperity (McKinsey Global Institute)

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  154. [email protected]
    opera.com/developer
    brucelawson.co.uk
    @brucel

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  155. Resources
    ▪ World Bank, Digital Dividends report http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2016
    ▪ Population forecast video by Hans Rosling (raw data from United Nations) https://www.gapminder.org/videos/dont-panic-the-
    facts-about-population/
    ▪ More than half of humanity lives within this circle (Washington Post)) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/
    2013/05/07/map-more-than-half-of-humanity-lives-within-this-circle/
    ▪ Hours worked for 500MB data plan 360.here.com/2015/06/03/offline-navigation-really-matters-500mb-data-costs-week-wages/
    ▪ By 2011, 56% of Bangladeshi households had access to a mobile phone mhealth.jmir.org/article/viewFile/mhealth_v3i1e24/2
    ▪ Indonesia: social media capital of the world Indonesia #3 nation on Twitter, #4 on Facebook https://ondeviceresearch.com/blog/
    indonesia-social-media-capital-world
    ▪ Myanmar: When a SIM Card Goes From $2,000 to $1.50 www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles/2014-09-29/myanmar-opens-its-
    mobile-phone-market-cuing-carrier-frenzy
    ▪ Population and GDP figures from CIA World Fact Book https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/
    ▪ Stats on page size/ images ratio from httparchive.org
    ▪ Opera’s work to reduce Chromium’s memory use https://dev.opera.com/blog/reducing-memory-use/
    ▪ GSMA report on Africa (https://www.gsmaintelligence.com/research/2016/07/consumer-barriers-to-mobile-internet-adoption-in-
    africa/568/) Asia (https://www.gsmaintelligence.com/research/2016/06/consumer-barriers-to-mobile-internet-adoption-in-asia/
    559/)
    ▪ Fast Africa: How Do We Get FAST Internet? (Policy Advice) https://webwewant.org/fast-africa/toolkit/get-fast-internet-policy-
    advice/
    ▪ McKinsey report www.mckinsey.com/insights/high_tech_telecoms_internet/internet_matters

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  156. Picture sources
    ▪ Me by HTML sign in Tokyo by Doug Schepers (@shepazu), used with permission. All rights reserved.
    ▪ World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends www.worldbank.org/en/
    publication/wdr2016
    ▪ “Is Google usable” video - clubinternet.co; used with permission. All rights reserved. https://vimeo.com/116787124
    ▪ Opera's Blink commits cake photographed by Andreas Bovens. All rights reserved.
    ▪ Overloaded truck, monks buying phones, packed tuk-tuk, Bangkok cables,
    Cambodian selfie boy Bruce Lawson. All rights reserved.
    ▪ Putri photo used with Putri's permission; all rights reserved.
    ▪ Proxy browser market share graph by Scentia Mobile, used with permission. http://data.wurfl.io/MOVR/
    pdf/2016_q1/MOVR_2016_q1.pdf

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  157. Maps
    ▪ True size of Africa by Kai Krause (Public Domain)
    ▪ Map of Indonesia Single Color by FreeVectorMaps.com
    ▪ Map of India Single Color by FreeVectorMaps.com
    ▪ Map of Bangladesh Single Color by FreeVectorMaps.com
    ▪ Map of Myanmar Single Color by FreeVectorMaps.com
    ▪ Map of China Single Color by FreeVectorMaps.com
    ▪ Map of Africa Single Color by FreeVectorMaps.com
    ▪ Map of Asia Single Color by FreeVectorMaps.com

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