Ma. Lourdes N. Tiquia
AS of January 2015, the Philippines had over 44.2 million Internet users, the second highest in Southeast Asia and the sixth in the whole of Asia. In terms of comparative scale, there are over a billion Internet users in the AsiaPacific region, which amounts to over 46 percent of the total number of Internet users in the world. Google has forecast that the Philippine Internet population would double by 2016.