On Tue, 6 May 2003, elijah wright wrote: To join in to your discussion, I must add some points to Elijah's side. Fistly: OECD measured secure connections in their 2002 digital divide report and they came up with the amazing number of 89.9% English language dominance. (secure connections are the bones needed for e-commerce and any more secure transactions) http://www.oecd.org/pdf/M00002000/M00002444.pdf Secondly: I am Estonian and being relatively fluent in Estonian and English, I do see how much smaller the cyberspace gets when you speak just one language. So, it is not just how many dfferent first-language speakers are there, but also about what language is used in content provision. So next to the people, there is need also for counting the sites themselves. Thirdly: To Elijah, I can probably find some citations towards the third group of your request, but it takes me some time and I need to translate them from Estonian to English :-) But in few days, if the request is still relevant by that time. Best, Pille Vengerfeldt