NEW VERSION OF MODEL: July 2025
ITU updated the percentage of connected persons for 138 countries over 227, 60 with negative changes and 78 with positive changes. Most changes are less than 10% with few exceptions.
Some changes look as corrections of figures rather than real evolution changes: Antigua/Barbuda -14%; Kiribati +34%; Moldova +17%; Myanmar +15%; Philippines +12%; Samoa -17%; Tajikistan +21%; Tonga -13%; Vanuatu -24%.
30 million new internauts from previous release 5.2, but changes are cosmetical in terms of contents.
The announcement in Linkedin was made with this text in French, with the attempt to bring some humor and poetry to the event and which is quite uneasy to translate:
“Je suis un trafiquant de donnĂ©es biaisĂ©es. Je les dĂ©biaise dans la mesure du probable et je les place en rĂ©seau de contre bande passante. Je me spĂ©cialise dans les donnĂ©es dĂ©monumĂ©rilinguistiques. Voici la Version 6 de notre modèle de crĂ©ation d’indicateurs dans l’Internet pour les langues de plus d’un million de locuteurs : https://lnkd.in/dgq52Yg5. Pas de changements en tĂŞte du classement des contenus, cela sature Ă bâbord; mais ça grouille en milieu et fin de classement, cela biture Ă tribord.“
Nice trial from Google Translate but humor and poetry are lost in translation:
“I’m a smuggler of biased data. I debias them as far as possible and put them in a counter-bandwidth network. I specialize in demon-numerilinguistic data. Here is Version 6 of our model for creating indicators in the Internet for languages with more than a million speakers: https://lnkd.in/dgq52Yg5. No changes at the top of the content ranking, it’s saturated on the port side; but it’s swarming in the middle and end of the ranking, it’s bingeing on the starboard side.“
ChatGPT allegedly tried to keep some humoristic touch:
Hereafter a proposal trying to keep both the meaning and the particular style: “I’m a trafficker of biased data. I de-bias them as far as probability allows and weave them into a network of counter-bandwidth smuggling. I specialize in demonumerolinguistic data. Here is Version 6 of our model for generating Internet indicators for languages with over a million speakers: https://lnkd.in/dgq52Yg5. No changes at the top of the content rankings — port side is saturated; but the middle and bottom of the list are teeming — starboard is getting drunk on it.“