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The Internet is making economic activity more efficient, faster, and cheaper, and extending social interaction in unparalleled ways. Increasingly, the largest turnover gains for businesses come from using online networks in some form.

The Internet has also brought unprecedented user and consumer empowerment as well as opportunities for new development and social activities. Individuals have greater access to information, which makes comparisons easier and forces  prices down. Internet users are very active, creating new content themselves and interacting in new ways.

The Internet is fast permeating all economic areas, and most public policy areas. For instance, e-government has become the prime tool for supporting government services and cooperation with citizens and businesses. Hospital systems are making more use of the Internet and online networks to increase affordability, efficiency and quality, through digital patient record systems, remote patient observation and healthcare delivery, along with improved diagnostics and imaging technology. Educational performance is found to be correlated with home access to computers. Moreover, environmentally-friendly technologies based on the Web in offices and transport systems and alternative power supply systems can help control climate change and improve energy efficiency.

The impact of the Internet is naturally global; helping to create closer integration of our economies and societies. Apart from that, as the Internet expands even broader it can help the [http://www.juust.org economic and social development] of people of all countries.