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By: Samuel Bocetta
At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic has socked us all into a new reality, only 59 percent of the world's population is connected to the Internet. For many countries, it is a luxury that simply doesn’t exist. In others where connectivity is spotty at best (or restricted), economic and social collapse due to the pandemic are paving the …
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