Facebook Stats for Middle East and North Africa (Finally)

Everyone knows that it's impossible very hard to find recent and real stats and numbers about social media usage in the MENA region.

So when I came through the "MENA Facebook Demographics" study realized by "Spot On", a public relation agency located in the UAE, I got all excited about it. If there is any designer out there motivated to make an infographic from this it would be great :)

Facebook users in MENA count for 15 million people divided pretty equitably between North Africa 7,704,420 and Middle East 7,286,460 : let's say 50/50 .

As shown in the map, users are mainly from the region top economic countries: 1. Egypt 2. Saudi Arabia 3. Morocco 4. Tunisia and 5. UAE.

English is the main used display language with 50%, followed by French (25%) and Arabic (23%). This can be explained by the users demographics data: education level, income level, social category, etc.


Concerning the users gender, only 37% of Facebook users in MENA are female (which is very low comparing to the US and UK +50%). 
However, Bahrain and Lebanon have the closest approach to gender equality with 44% of female users.


And finally, two interesting results about age and relationship status: 

UAE and Qatar, among with 6 other countries, have the oldest population of Facebook users. The rest of the MENA region sticks to the Occidental model with around 70% users with less than 25 years.

Because they have the oldest users population, United Arab Emirates and Qatar have also the most users with "Married" as a relationship status.

The study has a detailed page for each country and as a Moroccan, I wanted to share this one:

The full report is available on SPOT ON website (Thanks guys for bringing this data to everyone).

Le poste de travail 2010 Gartner et IBM

En s'appuyant sur l'étude du cabinet Gartner sur les nouveaux usages et tendances TIC, IBM dessine le poste de travail d'aujourd'hui.

Le rapport téléchargeable sur le site d'IBM (Lien en bas de page) commence par dresser un historique des TIC puis aborde les nouveaux usages et défis IT avec un focus sur le collaboratif, la portabilité et la mobilité.

La User Interface est également décortiquée passant du couple clavier-souris aux nouveaux modes d'utilisations et d'interactions que sont le toucher et la voix avec un clin d'œil au modèle futuriste à la Minority Report de John Underkoffler présenté chez TED :

Globalement, le poste de travail de demain sera standardisé et devra être accessible de partout en étant connecté (ou connectable) à n'importe quel moment. 

Bien sur, ceci induit un boom des plateformes on-demand et temps réel (webapps, RIA, cloud et SaaS) avec l'architecture technique nécessaire.

Le rapport est assez riche en information et prend en compte à peu près tous les enjeux technologiques et humains de notre ère (OpenSource, innovation, réseaux sociaux, smartphone, etc.).

Bref, une lecture que je recommande :)

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Are we addicted to the Internet ? [Infographic]

Are we addicted to the Internet ? The answer is in the following infographic found on Geekologie. 
Well I consider myself more an active user, and not only on watching LOLcats (so cute!!) :)