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Stephen Downes

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This is interesting. "China has built its own version of an ultrafast next-generation Internet network that promises to reduce the country's dependence on foreign companies, the state news media reported Monday. The China Education and Research Network has linked 167 institutes and departments at 25 universities in 20 cities through the Internet Protocol Version 6." Which makes me think: a lot of these studies comparing China with the rest of the world are based on per capita measures. But perhaps we would obtain a more accurate impression were we to look at the raw numbers.

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