Results of WIP-Chile 2003-2004:

In terms of Internet use and access, Chile is in a level close to Italy and Spain with its almost stable level of some 35% of web users between 2003 and 2004. Discarding the always relevant socio-economic causes, this stagnation may be explained by the ceiling of available computer skills –as it is the case in other countries. Additionally, for the first time WIP-Chile revealed the percentage of proxy users (thanks to whom access rises to 78% of the population) as well as the level of Internet churn. Although this technology produces tangible effects in the everyday life of Chileans, not all of them are caused by information technologies (IT). Therefore, since 2005 the team will study the impact of IT in businesses and the economy.