According to a BT HomeCampus surveys[1]: Before purchasing a home computer only 9% of fathers said they were involved most of the time with their child's home learning; the figure increased to 16% after a family PC had been purchased.
Growth in Internet use in Latin America from 1995-97[2]: Over 788%, almost double the average growth rate worldwide; user growth is fuelled primarily by women: close to 50% of all female respondents said they were Net newcomers, compared with only 31% percent of men; 85% of Latin American Net users visited US Web sites; 81% said English was not an obstacle to their using the Internet.
A study by New York-based NetSmart-Research found that[3]: women will dominate the marketing side of cyberspace and account for 60% of all Internet consumers by the year 2005.
The current cost for building a new plant to develop semicon- ductors[4] : $1-2 billion, which is projected cost in the next five years
Sources: 1 BT; 2 Saatchi & Saatchi; 3 Reuters; 4 Semiconducter
Industry Association's "Roadmap" for the industry
