[LINK] 'State of the Art'

[Tom Koltai]

Stephen, unfortunately that article is about data that was published in
March this year:

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GITR_Report_2011.pdf

With the exception of the Supercomputer data which was published last
month. :

http://top500.org/lists/2011/11


In short, most of the Australian data is irrelevant and wrong, with the
exception of perceived (CSIRO WiFi) patent protection, Internet and
mobile broadband penetration and lack of technology exports.
The top500 lists is about "known" supercomputers and shows only four in
Australia. 

The New York Times doesn't appear to be about fact checking any longer.

However, according to the above linked report, we do rank 17th in the
world on the Networked Readiness Index 2010-2011 even though not one
reference to the NBN was made anywhere in the document.

(Plus the same document ranks Japan 2 points behind us at 19th place...
Which of course is patently not the case and calls into question the
accuracy of the dataset and analysis methods used.)


TomK


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> Australia certainly looks well in the black ..
> 
> State of the Art:  A snapshot of the rapidly changing world 
> of computing, 
> communications and technology.   Published: December 5, 2011 
> 
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/12/06/science/1206-world.html?ref=scien
ce

Cheers,
Stephen
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