While we have achieved quite a bit in this area in the last few years, it stands to reason that there is still some ways to go for our countries to be fully “digital ready”. There is need for our governments to facilitate greater investments in internet and mobile technologies and in measures to bring down the cost of these services. Without such interventions, access to the internet etc. by our youth will languish at the current levels and the digital gap between our societies and the more advanced economies will widen, leaving us in a perpetual “catch-up” mode.

But, as these statistics implicitly indicate, does the mass or concentration of these Digital Native youths really prescribe digital trends? Or is it just specific sources of them, in specific locations that have almost always set the pace?