Amas maps Ireland’s digital divide
Colour coded map shows six counties where only one in ten have net access
Tech4Biz | 17 Sep 2007 :
Internet consultancy Amas has released a colour-coded map of Ireland showing the country’s Digital Divide, with colours indicating counties with the highest and lowest Internet uptake. The Amas map shows that areas close to Dublin have the highest net adoption, closely followed by high uptake in Galway, Cork and Waterford cities, while the North West and Wexford have the lowest uptake.
Orange indicates the areas of highest Internet penetration where more than 20 % of people have access, while brown indicates counties where less than ten per cent of people are online. However, the orange areas of the map were confined to the counties around Dublin and to a small part of Galway City, which has 31.6% or people online. Cork City had access rates of 22%, almost the same as Wicklow, while Kildare was a little higher with 23% of people online.
Wexford, Cavan, Longford, Roscommon and Donegal were all coloured brown, while Leitrim had the lowest access rate in the country at 7.8%.
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown has the highest rate of Internet use, with 39.9% of people having Internet access. Counties Meath, Louth, Cork, Galway and Waterford are all coloured green, indicating that between 15.1 and 20 % of people living there have Net access.
The remaining ten counties are coloured blue, indicated that between 10.1 and fifteen per cent of people have internet access. Only 11.7% of people in Tipperary are online, while Kerry has 11.2% penetration. The blue group is led by Co Clare, where 14% of people have access, closely followed by Westmeath where there is 13.7% net adoption. Amas compiled the map based on CSO figures