Pakistan has been ranked at 89th position in terms of network readiness out of the 127 countries by The World Economic Forum Global Information Technology Report 2008. The Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF), a partner institute of the World Economic Forum (WEF), published the report on Wednesday.
This is bad compared to last year. In 2007, Pakistan was at 84th position out of 122 countries. The News reports:
Although telecoms operators are aggressively upgrading their networks’ infrastructure to launch broadband data and multimedia services, Pakistan still ranks low in terms of the cost of broadband and security of Internet servers. Furthermore, the number of days and procedures required to enforce a contract in Pakistan is also a key challenge in achieving a sustainable impact. The decline is a result of a weakened political and regulatory environment and infrastructure environment, which refers to network facilities, network capacity and capabilities.
Published for the seventh consecutive year, the Global Information Technology Report is the world’s most comprehensive and authoritative international assessment of the impact of information and communications technologies on the nations’ development and competitiveness.
Among other South Asian countries- India has been ranked 50, Sri Lanka 79, Nepal 119, and Bangladesh 124. From this report, it is evident that most of the South Asian countries lack a developed IT infrastructure. Government of these countries should take necessary steps to develop their IT sector. If you want to see the report, visit the following link:
http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Information%20Technology%20Report/index.htm
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