[LINK] Denmark still number 1 in ICT, Australia has moved from 15 to 14.....

[Richard Chirgwin]

...since I'm a freelancer again and not tongue-tied by the interests of 
an employer:

Last year's WEF report was one of the least rigorous analysis documents 
I have ever seen. It included data that was several *years* out of date 
(for example, it used 2001/2002 data for its measure of international 
capacity), egregiously stupid methodologies (for example, "how much 
Internet bandwidth does the user have" was measured by an inaccurate 
count of international pipes, divided by the number of users), and 
unsustainable conclusions. Since every measure I could recognise or 
confirm was *wrong*, I concluded the report was utter drivel.

It is one of those manifestations of cultural cringe that Australians 
revel in: whether it's approbation from overseas, or criticism from 
overseas, we swallow it without chewing instead of looking under the covers.

Richard C

Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> GITR 2007-2008 report coverDenmark, Sweden and Switzerland lead the 
>> rankings
>>
>> Denmark is the most networked economy in the world, followed by 
>> Sweden and Switzerland, according to the last edition of The Global 
>> Information Technology Report
>
> .........
>
>> The Report is produced by the World Economic Forum in cooperation 
>> with INSEAD, the leading international business school, and is 
>> sponsored this year by Cisco Systems.
>
> <http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Information%20Technology%20Report/index.htm> 
>