April 14, 2006
In its Global Information Technology Report 2005-2006, the World Economic Forum ranked Taiwan seventh among 115 economies on its Networked Readiness Index, a measure of a nation's ability to take advantage of the developments in the information and communications technology sector. This ranking sees Taiwan move up from the 15th spot for NRI in the last report to enter the global top ten for the first time.
Significantly, Taiwan's 7th place ranking leaves the nation second only to Singapore in Asia. Singapore held the number one ranking worldwide in the WEF's GIF Report for 2004-2005. As for other nations in Asia, South Korea moved up from 24th to 14th, Japan dropped from 8th to 16th, while Hongkong fell from 7th to 11th. China saw its position fall nine spots to 50th worldwide.
The global top ten for 2005-2006 is made up in order of the United States, Singapore, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Canada, Taiwan, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Unsurprisingly, Taiwan finds itself ranked among some of the most innovative and economically powerful countries in the world.
As for some of the indices making up the NRI, Taiwan ranked 3rd globally for its
ITC market environment, 13th for
ITC infrastructure, 4th for individual user readiness, 16th for commercial readiness and 9th for government readiness. Taiwan's government also ranked 4th worldwide for
ITC usage, while Taiwan's individual users and commercial sector each earned 9th-place rankings for their use of ICT.
(Central News Agency)
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