This presentation was made for 200 participants in a training in basic ICT skills for members of the communities around PMM Girls School in Jinja, Uganda - 30th April 2014. The presentation is a brief about The Internet - What it is and how it has evolved to today.

1. THE INTERNET
A short Presentation by Chole Richard
to ICT trainee participants from communities around PMM Girls School.
30th April 2014
ICT training workshop organised by Uganda Communications Commission in
partnership with PM Girls’ School – 28th April to 2nd May 2014

2. Simple knowledge of the Internet
• a global system of interconnected computer
networks.

3. Simple knowledge of the Internet
• a network of networks that consists of millions
of private, public, academic, business, and
government networks.

4. Simple knowledge of the Internet
• carries an extensive range of information
resources and services.

5. Origin
• The origins of the
Internet date back
to research
commissioned by
the United States
government in the
1960s.
• Internet itself
began in the early
1980s.

6. Origin
• Interests of private companies expanded the
internet usage further.

7. Origin
• June 2012: more than 2.4 billion people were
using the internet.

8. The Internet Penetration today

9. Question time

10. Thank You
Chole