The World's 10 Most Wired Countries
To rank high on the list — one of 12 included in the WEF's annual Global Competitiveness Report — countries need to have tech-friendly government policies as well as high tech usage.
In the ranking, the WEF focuses on information and communication technologies (ICT), such as cellular connectivity and broadband Internet, noting that "ICT has evolved into the 'general-purpose technology' of our time … responsible for a large part of productivity increases."
Rankings are based on a combination of hard data from organizations like the International Telecommunications Union and responses to the WEF's Executive Opinion Survey on topics such as business adoption of technology and laws relating to ICT. About 11,000 business executives in 131 countries participate in the survey.
1) Sweden
2) Iceland
3) Switzerland
4) Netherlands
5) Denmark
6) Hong Kong
7) South Korea
8) Norway
9) United States
10) Luxembourg
Comments
Posted by: Anni
Posted on: July 3, 2008 05:42 AM
At time there is a alarming activity in schweden about security reasons. schweden wants to control the hole internet traffic that goes to (and come from) schweden. they want to publish a law to legalizes wiretapping the internet traffic. so beware in future what do you communicate to schweden via internet, they log everything :(
a thoughtfully Anni from Partnersuche
Posted by: Tamara
Posted on: October 11, 2008 07:36 AM
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) regularly conducts studies of 30 nations to measure broadband penetration. Broadband penetration refers to the number of broadband Internet subscribers compared to the overall population. The OECD usually breaks this down in a simple ratio: the number of broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants.
The OECD includes DSL, cable modem, fiber-optic and local area network (LAN) connections in its calculations. It doesn't include dialup modem users, because those users don't qualify as broadband subscribers.
According to the OECD, the top 10 most wired countries are:
1. Denmark
2. Netherlands
3. Switzerland
4. Korea
5. Norway
6. Iceland
7. Finland
8. Sweden
9. Canada
10. Belgium
Each of these countries has at least 23 subscribers per 100 inhabitants -- Denmark has 34.3. In comparison, the United States has 22.1 subscribers for every 100 inhabitants. Despite this relatively small discrepancy, the U.S. ranks 15th on OECD's list.
Tamara from Partnerbörse