Top Ten High Tech Countries

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Ran across this in my internet wanderings today and thought it might be interesting to see where various countries fall in the world tech tree in regard to their level of communications technology. This report comes from the World Economic Forum, and measures the level of networking per country.

Here's the summary quote, with more info and a chart at the link above:

Geneva, Switzerland, 9 April 2008 - Denmark is the most networked economy in the world, followed by Sweden and Switzerland, according to The Global Information Technology Report 2007-2008, released today by the World Economic Forum. Among the top ten, the Republic of Korea (9) and, to a lesser extent, the United States (4) post the most notable improvements (moving up 10 and 3 positions, respectively).

“The successful experience of the Nordic countries, Singapore, the United States or Korea shows that a coherent government vision on the importance of ICT, coupled with an early focus on education and innovation, are key not only for spurring networked readiness, but also to lay the foundations for sustainable growth,” said Irene Mia, Senior Economist of the Global Competitiveness Network at the World Economic Forum and Co-Editor of the Report...

...The Networked Readiness Index (NRI), featured in the Report, examines how prepared countries are to use ICT effectively on three dimensions: the general business, regulatory and infrastructure environment for ICT; the readiness of the three key stakeholder groups  individuals, businesses and governments  to use and benefit from ICT; and their actual usage of the latest information and communication technologies available.
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The link to view the whole report in pdf format is available here.
 
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Couldn't see Oz on the list; not surprising!!
 
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Looks like you and the wildlife are pretty network-empowered down there, Corwin--you're at #14, and New Zealand is #22. There's a longer list of 127 countries here. :)
 
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I've been to korea,,,, it is like visiting the future... instead of dish washing machines they have X-ray cabinets where you put your mug, and it is automagically cleaned..... and the families have house robots! Quite surprising they are only 9th and after my own country :S thought they'd be at the top!
 
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Us Nordics are doing pretty well, but that is a must for small countries with tiny home markets.
 
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Malaysia is currently at #26, pretty good i think, but as expected still outshined by our nearest neighbor - Singapore. It's no wonder anyhow, as even though the government recognized the importance of IT since early 1990s, our previous highest ranking guy from executive branch think that porns could be eliminated through internet software filtering o_O...
 
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Germany 16. I believe it could be better is there weren't so many things wrong there here, especially education and innovation.
Germany - as it is now - rather appears to be convervative to me, personally.
 
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What's the download/connection speed you have?
In Belgium, we have internet over cable which got us to a max of 20Mbps. (My personal connection is a 10Mbps) ADSL gives you 4Mbps and the successor (VDSL) goes up to 17Mbps.

I think we deserve to be number 25, not in the least due to the hacking of our defense network by some Turkish hackers.
 
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It has become much better over the years. But there still is a lot to do on the more rural areas.
 
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Lemme just say that Serbia isn't even listed. That speaks about our development much better than any ranking could, IMHO (for the record, I've got an 1Mbit/128kbit ADSL that I pay ~24 euros; the fastest one can get is 1.5/196, ~35 eur. Cable has somewhat lower prices, but speeds in the same range).
 
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Only networked tech ah?
But in my opinion, High Tech is large field! Are there any standards else can show more information to scale if a country is high-tech enough?

TKS for your answer!:biggrin:
 
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UK = 12th?????

Which part of the UK did they survey. Most of our ISP's are still using string with cups on the end!
 
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Zaleukos said:
Us Nordics are doing pretty well, but that is a must for small countries with tiny home markets.
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Well, a lot of small countries with tiny home market are doing a lot worse than you scandinavians, so I doubt it's a «must» :)
 
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VPeric said:
Lemme just say that Serbia isn't even listed. That speaks about our development much better than any ranking could, IMHO (for the record, I've got an 1Mbit/128kbit ADSL that I pay ~24 euros; the fastest one can get is 1.5/196, ~35 eur. Cable has somewhat lower prices, but speeds in the same range).
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I double-checked and you're totally correct, VPeric. Every country around you is listed--Bosnia/Herzgovina(95), Croatia(49),Romania(61), Bulgaria(68) etc etc but no mention of Serbia. What's your theory on why your country isn't on there?
 
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vanedor said:
Well, a lot of small countries with tiny home market are doing a lot worse than you scandinavians, so I doubt it's a «must» :)
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That's sort of the point. They do worse in general, not just in high tech:p If you want to be a rich small country you <<must>> be highly adaptive and open to outside influences.;)
 
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Or have a really, ahem, "flexible" banking system.
 
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Lol, I don't even want to look for South Africa, it's too depressing.
 
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Prime Junta said:
Or have a really, ahem, "flexible" banking system.
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True:D But even counting those the only real countries (Liechtenstein, Monaco, and other places who dont even have a foreign policy of their own dont really count) that are as rich are Switzerland and Luxemburg, with Switzerland sharing a lot of our non-banking practices (and being high in the list in this thread)...
 
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