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PAGE 116: almost half of all Internet users say they use the Internet for formalised educational activities (Figure 3.17). There is a large variation across OECD countries: more than 70% of users in Finland, Iceland, Luxembourg and Portugal report using the Internet for formal learning, while in four countries the number of users is lower than 30%

PAGE 118: Across the OECD, 39% of citizens use the Internet to obtain information from the public authorities’ websites in 2011. These numbers are significantly higher in the Nordic countries, reaching more than two thirds of the adult population in Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Sweden (Figure 3.20)