{"id":64011,"date":"2025-10-09T16:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/64011\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:53:07","slug":"nearly-47-pc-indians-still-offline-women-33-pc-less-likely-than-men-to-use-internet-gsma-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/64011\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 47 pc Indians still offline women 33 pc less likely than men to use internet GSMA- The Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Oct 9 (PTI) Around 47 per cent of Indians are still offline, and women are 33 per cent less likely than men to use mobile internet, global telecom industry GSMA said on Thursday.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0GSMA, Head of Asia Pacific, Julian Gorman, at India Mobile Congress 2025, told PTI that the connectivity gaps are mainly due to the higher price of handsets and also technical skills.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0&#8220;Nearly 47 per cent of Indians are still offline, and women are 33% less likely than men to use mobile internet. This entrenched digital gender divide could hold back inclusive growth if not urgently addressed,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Gorman said that the data is based on research by GSMA Intelligence.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0GSMA in a report said India&#8217;s digital economy has surged threefold to USD 370 billion in 2023, from USD 108 billion a decade ago, and is on track to surpass USD 1 trillion by 2030. &#8220;However&#8230;.unless critical innovation and adoption gaps are closed, momentum could falter before India achieves its 2047 digital sovereignty goals,&#8221; the report said.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The report said while India leads in digital public infrastructure and mobile rollout, it lags in research and development investment, private sector innovation, and retention of skilled professionals.<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;Without urgent action, India risks a &#8220;brain drain dividend&#8221; that benefits global competitors instead of fuelling domestic growth,&#8221; the report said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Delhi, Oct 9 (PTI) Around 47 per cent of Indians are still offline, and women are 33&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[85,123,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-64011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}