...moving down one rank having been leapfrogged by... ..Estonia for goodness sake!
Quick! Somebody cancel Gauttung's Golden Handshake... http://www.weforum.org/gitr So here is an Olympian contest we Geeks can really care about... Based on a mixture of hard data, collected from well-respected international organizations such as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the World Bank, and survey data coming from the Executive Opinion Survey conducted annually by the World Economic Forum in each of the economies covered by the Report, the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) measures the level of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) development of nations, looking at a large number of relevant variables???67 this year. The networked readiness framework used for the analysis is constant from one year to the next. It rests on three main subindexes, capturing: ??? the presence of an ICT-conducive environment in a given country by assessing a number of features of the broad business environment, some regulatory aspects, and the soft and hard infrastructure for ICT; ??? the level of ICT readiness and propensity of the three main national stakeholders???individuals, the business sector, and the government; and ??? the actual use of ICT by the above three stakeholders. Although I don't quite agree with the phrase "well respected" going along with "world bank" and "world economic forum". The wooden spoons for most rapidly going backward go to Uganda and Pakistan, moving down the ranks by leaps of 21 and 17 respectively. Notable mention must go to South Africa (ranking falling by -10) and US (-6). Most remarkable improvements are in Latvia, Nicaragua, Jamaica all leaping up by 9 ranks. Denmark, Sweden, Singapore and Finland currently lead the world. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Zealand
