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Survey:
14.4 million households have sent e-mail to elected officials
America
is making rapid progress toward moving its democratic processes
to the Internet, according to a new study released by E-The
People.com, http://www.e-thepeople.com, a government services
portal that helps Americans communicate directly with over
175,000 government officials nationwide.
According
to the survey, one out of eight American households (12
percent, or 14.4 million households) has used the Internet
to communicate with a government official by e-mail in the
past 12 months. One out of every 14 American households
(7 percent, or 8.4 million households) has signed an Internet
petition asking the government to make a change.
Source:
MediaPeak, http://mediapeak.com
Two-thirds
of workers surf Net for personal use at work, new study
shows
Almost
two-thirds of US workers surf the Internet for personal
interest while at work, a research study conducted by Greenfield
Online, Inc on behalf of GFI has shown.
“This
study confirms our own in-house research that unproductive
use of the Internet is widespread. This results not only
in loss of time and wasted bandwidth at work, but this also
drains organizations financially,” said Nick Galea,
GFI president.
The
survey revealed that 64 per cent of the interviewees use
the Internet for personal interest during working hours.
Of these, 26 percent spend less than an hour doing so, 22
percent spend 1 to 2 hours, 8 per cent spend 3 to 4 hours
and another 8 per cent spend more than 5 hours cyberslacking.
The survey found search engines, news sites, information
sites and email sites to be the most popular.
Source:
MediaPeak, http://mediapeak.com
Consumers
wary of gathering of personal information on the Internet
New
research from Odyssey reveals that online users support
government intervention to set standards for how companies
may use personal information gathered through the Internet
and World Wide Web. Forty-seven percent of online household
heads strongly agree that the government should regulate
the use of personal information gathered online, and another
35 percent agree at least somewhat with the concept. Furthermore,
59 percent strongly distrust companies’ ability or
intention to keep personal information confidential, regardless
of the policies the companies have in place.
“Consumers
have a fundamental distrust of the companies that gather
their personal information online,” said Nick Donatiello,
president and CEO of Odyssey. “
Source:
MediaPeak, http://mediapeak.com
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