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Digital Divide Narrows, According to the Economist Intelligence Unit's Seventh Annual E-Readiness Rankings

LONDON - 26 Apr 2006: The world in 2006 is ever more "e-ready" -- there are over 1bn Internet users and 2bn mobile-phone users worldwide, and most countries continue to make steady progress in most qualitative indicators of technology-related development. Virtually all countries included in the 2006 e-readiness rankings have improved their scores over the past year. Moreover, both in relative and absolute terms, the improvement is greater in the lower tiers of the rankings than at the top. As a result, the distance separating the best from the rest has declined. "The digital divide no longer looks quite the chasm many people once feared," says Daniel Franklin, Editorial Director of the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Another divide is also diminishing, in this case between upper tier countries in terms of broadband development. North Asian leaders had stolen a jump on other OECD countries with a rapid acceleration of broadband adoption. Over the past two years, however, broadband growth rates in the likes of South Korea and Japan have stabilised, while other e-readiness leaders such as Norway and Switzerland have made up ground. Broadband connectivity is becoming less of a distinction among e-readiness leaders, and other criteria--such as innovation, information security and governments' commitment to digital development -- have emerged as more telling differentiators.

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Europe remains dominant. Most of the rankings' top players have moved upwards in lock step, with little movement in the broader ranks from 2005 to 2006. West European countries take six of the top ten spots in this year's rankings, and the Nordics occupy three of them. Denmark (in 1st place), Sweden (4th) and Finland (7th) remain best in class in key areas of connectivity, such as mobile penetration and Internet use. Among the biggest gainers in 2006 are Australia (8th), Canada (9th) -- breaking into the global top ten for the first time -- Lithuania (38th) and, at the lower end of the scale, Algeria (63rd).

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The IBM Institute for Business Value develops fact-based strategic insights for senior business executives around critical industry-specific and cross-industry issues. The Institute, which is part of IBM Global Business Services, draws on IBM consultants around the world to identify issues of global interest and to develop practical recommendations with local relevance. With consultants and professional staff in more than 160 countries, IBM Global Business Services is the world's largest consulting services organization. This paper is part of an ongoing commitment by IBM Global Business Services to provide forward-looking industry and business points of view, and to help companies and industries transform their futures. For more information, visit www.ibm.com/bcs.

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