Generation Z or Digital Native: What era is coming on Earth?

The International Telecommunication Union has published a recent research report on Internet users. The hotel block in infographics was assigned to such a concept as “Digital Native”. Who are these "digital natives" and why it is important, as well as a lot of interesting infographics with the translation in this article.



Digital Native (roughly translated as a Russian. Native resident of a digital society, a person born in a digital society) is a term first used by the American Marc Prensky to refer to people who were born during the digital revolution and, thus, have been under the influence of digital technology. The content of this concept is close to the concept of Generation Z ; The “digital person” is regarded as the main resident of the “digital age” People who were born before the beginning of the digital age, Prensky called, accordingly, “Digital Immigrants”.
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More than 250 million people have become Internet users over the past year and by the end of the year, the total number of Internet users will reach 40% of the world's population.

More interesting facts in the infographics below:



Links to three more infographics that I did not have time to translate:

Information and Communication Technology Development Index
Comparison of price and availability of Internet
Trends in digital TV broadcasting

A brief summary of the report in Russian.
The full version of the report in English can be found here.