Access to ICT Technologies in the ESCWA Member Countries
Web Sites in the Arab World
Nearly 18,000 Arab sites at the end of 1999 out of more than 10M sites around the world, up from 8,000 in 1998*
Around 4,000 web sites had Arabic texts in 1999 up from 1,200 in 1998*
Intellectual Property Rights are at stake
*Source: DIT net (www.dit.net)