The Basque diaspora online

Eleven years after those first pages, the web was already part of the life of the Basque centres, and someone set out to count them. Oiarzabal did it in November 2005: of 155 Basque associations, 98 had a presence on the internet, 63.3%, spread across 16 countries. Set beside those of other communities from Spain, the figures are far apart:²

Behind those numbers there were people to ask. More than 140 people took part in the study, among them the heads of centres and those who ran their websites, in more than 20 countries.² With that work as a base Oiarzabal wrote the 2013 book, which analyses how those websites are made, why, and what they tell about the people who make them.¹