http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/04/issue/feature_gp.asp
They profile tech trends in around half a dozen countries. Amongst the most interesting are the articles on Brazil (CDI's telecentre work and other digital divide projects from around the country) and South Africa (local language content and open source). Here are direct links to those two articles:
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/04/issue/feature_gp_brazil.asp http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/04/issue/feature_gp_safrica.asp
Meanwhile, the issue includes a series of world maps that identify each country as high, medium or low in a range of metrics related to ICTs and the digital divide. Here are the maps:
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/04/images/feature_gp_g1.gif http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/04/images/feature_gp_g2.gif
Since the maps don't have a text version, I've taken the liberty of typing up the top five rankings of the most relevant maps.
Top R&D spending as a percentage of GDP Israel Sweden Finland Japan Iceland
Top ICT spending per capita US Switzerland Mexico Denmark Sweden
Most Mobile Phone Users per 1000 People Luxembourg Israel Italy Iceland Sweden
Internet Use Per 1000 people Sweden South Korea US Canada Demark
Highest Cost of Internet Access Central African Republic Sudan Haiti Gabon Republic of the Congo
Personally, I wish the maps weren't divided into rather vague rankings (how "high" is high? What does "low" mean?), but they still make for interesting representations on the relative state of ICTs around the world.
Thanks, Andy
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