Small countries continue to lead in Global IT
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by Rajesh Kumar on 10-07-2008
No, I don’t mean outsourcing as we know it. I merely mean IT adoption and IT readiness in a general sense. It should not surprise that the Global IT Report published by Prof. Soumitra Dutta of Insead business school has Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland as the top three countries in that order. In fact, the list of Top 10 countries in the word has only one large country – USA, which has moved up three notches. The Global IT Report is quite a pointer, since it compares parameters such as ICT environment by looking a regulatory environment and infocomm infrastructure. I am also assuming this report also takes government ICT focus as a parameter to rate.
I am a little surprised not to see India in the list. It has one of the fastest growing ICT industry, and telecom is fairly well regulated. But then, one would not count India as being anywhere near being as network ready as Singapore or Korea which seem to be leading the way.
I liked Insead’s Knowledge portal and strongly recommend a look. I also found case study on Indian Railways here. I wonder how many other B-Schools have the vision to create an external knowledge community like Insead.
You are right Rajesh. IT adoption in India has to improve a lot. I have always wondered that when our IT firms do a lot of work for Govt agencies of foreign countries , why is that our public agencies don’t seem to be too IT savvy. Of course we do are progressing in areas where it is inevitable like Railway ticketing.
And I guess lot of universities these days are beginning to launch public knowledge portals. http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/ is a portal by Wharton. If you search in youtube, you would also discover that most of the American universities have dedicated channels too. Like the one by CMU.