The Connectivity Scorecard
Nokia Siemens Networks commissioned London Business School professor Leonard Waverman to develop a new global information and communications technology (ICT) index called the Connectivity Scorecard that examines the extent to which governments, businesses and consumers use telecommunications connectivity to drive social and economic prosperity.
Unlike other indices that focus on infrastructure availability as the primary measurement of how "well-connected" a country is, the Connectivity Scorecard is designed to also measure telecommunications usage and its economic impact.
To start, Professor Waverman created two different rankings: one compares 16 so-called Innovation Driven countries and the other ranks nine Resource Driven countries (he borrows those terms from the World Economic Forum's definitions). With 10 being the highest possible score, the United States topped the Innovation Driven list with a 6.97 and Russia was first in the Resource Driven list with a 6.11.
The primary finding, as described in a report released earlier today, is that "there is much untapped potential in even the most advanced markets [and] countries that one normally thinks of as highly connected still score poorly on this scorecard." For example, Korea has built a reputation for having an extensive telecom infrastructure that offers consumers low-cost, high-speed broadband and innovative wireless services that surpass what's available in many other countries. But it ranks 10th among the Innovation Driven countries in the Connectivity Scorecard because it invests relatively little in the business sector as measured by this index.
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