The World Economic Forum (the one that brings political and business leaders together in Davos each year and claims simultaneously to be impartial and non-partisan, but committed to entrepreneurship) has just published its Global Information Technology Report. This shows that the US, Canada, and Taiwan have jumped several places up a "Network Readiness" ranking based on an assessment of:
- the environment for ICT offered by a given country or community;
- the readiness of the community's key stakeholders - individuals, business and governments;
- the usage of ICT among these stakeholders.
The UK has risen from 12th to 10th place.
The full report costs £65, and is available from Palgrave Macmillan, but you can read its summary [66 kB PDF], as well as a transcript of an informative interview with Augusto Lopez Claros, who is one of the report's authors. [20060917 - link broken - intend to fix it.]
Just for the hell of it, and in less than 30 seconds, I used irows, which I described in Fortnightly Mailing 20060324, to create an HTML version of the ranking, and this appears in the continuation post below.
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