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Source:
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The US regains first position
in the rankings of the World Economic Forum's Global Information
Technology Report 2005-2006 |
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Singapore, Denmark, Iceland and
Finland follow, confirming the ICT dominance of Asia and the Nordic
countries |
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An Excerpt |
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The United States tops the rankings of The
Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006¡¯s ¡°Networked Readiness
Index¡± for the third time in five years, maintaining its eminent
position as a leader in the area of innovation and confirming its
position as an information and communication technology powerhouse. |
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With record coverage of 115 economies
worldwide and published for the fifth consecutive year, The Global
Information Technology Report (GITR) has grown into the world¡¯s most
respected assessment of the impact of information and communication
technology (ICT) on the development process and the competitiveness of
nations. |
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The Networked Readiness Index (NRI) measures
the propensity for countries to leverage the opportunities offered by
ICT for development and increased competitiveness. It also establishes a
broad international framework mapping out the enabling factors of such
capacity. |
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The Report is produced by the World Economic
Forum in cooperation with INSEAD and is sponsored this year by Cisco
Systems... |
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Singapore, in second place overall,
maintains its commanding position having achieved a top-three ranking
for the fourth consecutive year. |
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Singapore has an excellent regulatory
environment, world-class levels of education and training, and a
government that is committed to enhancing the use of the latest
technologies across all sectors of the economy ¨C all in a context of
excellent macroeconomic management and persistent efforts to improve the
institutional environment for economic activity... |
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Asia and the Pacific also do extremely well
this year with Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia and Japan occupying
ranks 7, 11, 14, 15 and 16, respectively. |
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India broadly maintains its position with
respect to last year (at 40th place) while China drops 9 positions to
50th place, widening the performance gap with respect to India. |
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Especially noteworthy is the showing of
Taiwan, gaining 8 positions from last year and entering in the top ten
for the first time. The rise of Taiwan as an ICT powerhouse in the last
three decades, as a result of intelligent public policies and
public-private synergies in the ICT sector, is indeed exceptional and is
the object of a specific case study included in the Report this year... |
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The Global Information Technology Report
2005-2006 consists of five main parts: the first three contain
essays written by practitioners, scholars and experts with relevant
knowledge and experience in the ICT area. |
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An update of the Networked Readiness
Index is followed by chapters on issues related to networked
readiness, productivity-related topics and reports on the varied
state of ICT development in Chile, Israel, Korea, Mexico and Taiwan. |
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The fourth part comprises 115 detailed
country profiles, providing a snapshot of each economy¡¯s level of
ICT penetration and usage; and the fifth part consists of data
tables with country rankings for each variable used in calculating
the Index. |
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The editors of the Report are Soumitra
Dutta of INSEAD and Augusto Lopez-Claros and Irene Mia of the World
Economic Forum. |
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More..... (Full Press Release & chart) |
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Source:
www.weforum.org Press Release
28 Mar 2006 |
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