Vietnam has dropped 7 ranks in terms of Internet exploitation index

In the global report entitled 2005 Connectivity Index, which includes 115 countries that the World Economic Forum has just announced about the exploitation of computers and Internet in order to increase competitiveness for the economy, Vietnam has a score number -0.47, ranked 75th compared to position 68 in the 2004 report.

In Southeast Asian countries, apart from Singapore in the Top 10, other countries have very different scores: Malaysia 0.93 points (ranked 24, up 3 places), Thailand 0.35 points (stuff 34, up 2 places), Philippines -0.37 points (70th, down 3 places), Indonesia reached -0.36 points (68th, down 17 grades).

In the report published this time, the United States regained the No. 1 position from Singapore, the country retreated to the position of 'runner-up'. The group of 10 oil countries and territories ready for the network connection list 2005 includes the United States, Singapore, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Canada, Taiwan, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

The Networked Readiness Index (NRI) of the World Economic Forum assesses the situation in which countries exploit opportunities created by information technology to promote development and increase edge capabilities. paintings. The index also sets an international framework to identify positive factors that promote the ability to take advantage of the above opportunity. NRI reflects the information technology status of an economy in three aspects: overall macroeconomic; legal environment with information technology infrastructure; the availability of the three components of Individuals, Enterprises and the Government in exploiting the benefits of information technology as well as their use of the latest communication technologies in practice. Come on.

Augusto Lopez-Claros, Director of the Global Competitiveness Program of the World Economic Forum and co-author of the report, said: 'Current communication technology represents one of the dynamics. the most important force in promoting efficiency and productivity in a rapidly changing modern economy '.

Phan Khương