SA ranked 5th in world connectivity score

Horse radish....

This must have been a seriously short sighted study. There is no way we can be better than countries like Korea.
 
Ja, I'm also using the 'dodgy methodology' card. :p
 
I see ZA are in a 'Special group" not including many first world countries.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39292536,00.htm

What I found very interesting was
The authors point to a well-known study by Crandall and Jackson that showed a $500bn long-term economic benefit to the US just from achieving near-universal broadband penetration.
Click to expand...

Maybe government should sit up and listen.

I see roads free of cars and carbon emissions on the down. I see large corporations no longer having to invest in bricks and mortar and I see real flexi time for working parents. There are just so many things that we could be doing that would save billions and all of them are achievable right now with the current technology
 
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its 'Connectivity' score... not accessibility. SA has got world class connectivity systems that cost a fortune.. so are never used.
 
I have so much "connectivity" I am practically an ISP in other countries.
All to get around the dodgy internet we deal with.

So, yeah, we may be high on that list.
 
Strange this, we are also the 5th most dangerous country in the world too - now that one I can believe!
 
france, germany, italy UK, sweden, finland, US, spain, shu.... theres 8... and I betchya theyre all more connected than us! Perhaps we are 5th from the bottom?
 
i suppose we are efficient in our use of connectivity ... in the same way an athlete becomes more "efficient" when you chop off his one leg
 
The details are here:
http://www.nokiasiemensnetworks.com...nnectivityScorecard/ConnectivityScorecard.htm


Efficiency and resource driven economies - Connectivity score
Russia - 6.11
Malaysia - 5.82
Mexico - 4.37
Brazil - 4.28
South Africa - 4.11
China - 3.42
Philippines - 2.38
India - 1.68
Nigeria - 1.01


Innovation-driven economies - Connectivity score
United States - 6.97
Sweden - 6.83
Japan - 6.80
Canada - 6.50
Finland - 6.10
UK - 6.10
Australia - 5.93
Germany - 5.52
France - 5.07
Korea - 4.78
Hong Kong SAR - 4.46
Italy - 3.85
Spain - 3.56
Hungary - 3.18
Czech Republic - 3.11
Poland - 2.18

New measures provide more comprehensive results on ICT usage

Unlike other research available, the Connectivity Scorecard measures usage and skills such as literacy, the use of enterprise software and the accessibility of women to ICT. It also articulates the benefits of connectivity explicitly in terms of economic and social contributions taking into account varying needs in different countries.

Different economies have different needs

Economic growth of innovation driven economies depends on new ways of using connectivity, whereas for efficiency and resource driven economies social development plays an important role in getting the most from connectivity investments.

The study shows that even the world’s best connected countries such as the Unites States and Sweden are not exploiting communications technologies to their fullest potential. Given the room for improvement on multiple measures of connectivity, there is every reason to believe that the worldwide gain from improving connectivity could be significantly higher.
 
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