But the internet can bring both great promise and great peril for microfinance, according to Ethan Zuckerman, a fellow at Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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But Ethan Zuckerman, a blogger and activist, used independent data to estimate that these links represent roughly 1-2% of the combined total of friendships on Israeli and Palestinian accounts.

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"The truly disconnected corners of the globe are shrinking, and shrinking rapidly, " says Ethan Zuckerman, who studies technology use in the developing world as a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

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They show a philosopher so unfamiliar with the state of the Internet and the kind of research into usage produced by analysts such as Gartner, Forrester Research, the Yankee Group, the Pew Research Center, Jakob Nielsen or Ethan Zuckerman, that he takes these claims as givens, not as claims requiring amplification, clarification, and examination.

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