Friday, March 27, 2009

WEF Global Info Tech Report 2008-09 -"Network Readiness"

The World Economic Forum has released it's Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009, the eighth study conducted by the WEF in conjunction with the INSEAD business school and sponsored by Cisco Systems. The report gauges how 134 economies around the world are prepared to use ICT effectively.

Part 1 contains essays examining different topics related to mobility and ICT. These include mobile telephony and its imact on economic grouth and networked readiness; Internet ubiquity, mobile reality mining, and mobility of human talent and R&D flow.

It also contains an extensive global survey of "network readiness", which provides a useful snapshot of 134 economies' ICT strategies and achievements.

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