Colombia and the Net (Score 1)

In Colombia, much like other South American countries, the Internet has been embraced pretty widely by many different groups. Many portals are being developed solely for the Latin American audience, multiple publications have gone all out to post their magazines/newspapers on the net with pretty successful results, and companies are trying be part of e-commerce. The Internet is very popular throughout the high and middle classes, but is still to engulf the lower working class. The government has not involved itself into trying to legislate the net, to the extent that the ELN and FARC (two Colombian guerrilla groups) have their own web sites. A bigger question is what will be the impact of the internet's e-commerce on such developing countries. Will Latin American countries step up and make part of the new internetised global economy and flourish, or will they be crushed by larger multinationals.