As a result, the Internet has emerged as a new medium of economic and social exchange. It has sparked a variety of new business models for offering products and services that rely on interactivity, direct exchange of information between individuals and virtual co-presence.

The Growth of Internet Related Services in the Arab World

In recent years, the Middle East and North African region governments, rec

According to the same source, the number of Internet account holders in the Middle East region has risen from 338,000 at the end of April 1999 to 545,500 on February 2000, an increase of 62 percent. Though the growth rate is also high in the number on Internet users, they constitute only 0.7 percent of the population in the Arab World, which stands at 280million. However, the annual growth rate in the number of users is expected to slightly increase and average at more than 80 percent over the next three years.

The growth of the Internet has been an important factor in pushing forward the expansion and modernization of telecommunications infrastructure. According to the latest research unit of Internet Arab World Magazine, which was conducted in the first week of Febru

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