Digital Activism Survey Report 2009

Caucasus (both less than 1%) were in line with the percentage of world users that are currently accessing
the internet in those regions.
However, it is important to note that the geographic distribution of respondents should not be used as a
proxy for the distribution of digital activists around the world. For example, 38% of the 120 respondents
who identified their country of origin reported that they were from the United States. This data matches
the visitor statistics to the DigiActive website, which indicates that perhaps this does not represent a true
distribution of digital activists around the world, especially when compared to Internet usage statistics
gathered in the survey itself, which showed little to no difference between country/region and internet
usage. This is most likely a result of DigiActive's dissemination process: the survey was heavily promoted
on the DigiActive website, and the visitor statistics to the site closely match the responses in the survey.
Also, while the percentage of world users in South and Central America was almost 11% in 2008 at a
penetration rate of 30%, survey respondents from the area only accounted for 2.5%. This is likely because
DigiActive does not produce content in Spanish or Portuguese and thus has few site visitors from that
region.
Figure 3: Geographic Distribution of Survey Respondents
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