Switching
On The Lights
( The Cultural Scene)
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l22 Contries/280 m people (Size of the US/ One
quarter of India/One fifth of China)
lOnly o.6% use the Internet (Arabs
represent 5% of World population)
lOnly 1.2% have a PC.
lOnly 10% of the 1st World expenditure on education
lOnly o.14% of GDP is spent on R&D (Far
less than one quarter of the World Average:
Japan 2.9%, Israel 2.53%, Cuba 1.62%)
lOnly 330 books translated/year (one
fifth of Greece / Accumulated since Maamoun Age 100`000 equal to Spain’s in a year)
lMore than 60 Million illiterates (Majority women)
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