{"id":291,"date":"2011-10-10T00:44:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T07:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/?p=291"},"modified":"2013-07-09T12:32:19","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T19:32:19","slug":"mongolia-connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2011\/mongolia-connected\/","title":{"rendered":"Mongolia Connected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toollogo2010.mn\/doc\/Main%20results_20110615_to%20EZBH_for%20print.pdf\">2010 Mongolia Census<\/a>, 30.6% of Mongolians (six years old and older) use the Internet. The level of Internet usage is higher in Ulaanbaatar (49.3%) and some urban centers, such as Erdenet (36.5%) and Darkhan (34.4%). A wide digital gap appears to exist particularly between Mongolia&#8217;s far western provinces and Ulaanbaatar as only about 10% of far western residents use the Internet. The usage of internet is urban-centric, but it is growing and diversifying.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, some cellphone network operators provide inexpensive access to Internet (at least using messenger and email services) in Mongolia. The usage of cellphones is increasing dramatically. 74% of Mongolians (including children) and 86.9% of the residents of Ulaanbaatar have at least one cellphone. Two years ago, one could find a &#8220;street-phone&#8221; or a portable telephone, which all small kiosks and street vendors had everywhere in Ulaanbaatar. Now, they have disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the increasing usage of Internet and cell phones has many important implications for everyday life, politics, and business. Broadly, it makes a landlocked country &#8220;land-linked,&#8221; and its people more connected. The map that you see below shows an interesting pattern. It obviously shows the expansion of Facebook, but it in part shows a difference between Mongolia and its immediate neighbors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vincos.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WMSN0611-1024.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"World Map of Social Networks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vincos.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/WMSN0611-570.png\" alt=\"World Map of Social Networks\" width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some observations about connectivity in Mongolia based on the recently released census. <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2011\/mongolia-connected\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279226,3511,307852],"tags":[307959],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-population","category-society-and-culture","category-ulaanbaatar","tag-byambajav-dalaibuyan-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2613,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/2613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}