Reasons for low levels of connectivity include not only security and moral concerns and the hurdles of cost. Governments often don't seem to know how to use Internet access, many individuals with access don't use it, and many sites are overseas. An answer, Jerrold Green suggested, might lie in parallels with the pattern of governments in the region practicing overseas what they do not preach at home. The same pattern may be observed also in extra-governmental sectors' communications practices and strategies.
Arab newspapers provide an interesting comparison.
Eventually, the gap may close, but the gap itself implies a more complex model than the presumption prevailing since modernization theory that communication has liberalizing effects indendent of what is communicated. Contact the developer here. Copyright 1999-2001, Georgetown University.