Indonesia Ranked Higher on NR Index

Indonesia is ranked 53rd out of 138 countries on Networked Readiness Index (NRI) for the period of between 2010 and 2011 from the Global Information Technology Report (GITR). Last year, as published by the World Economic Forum, Indonesia was ranked 67th out of 138 countries.

Networked readiness is an international assessment of countries’ capacity to exploit the opportunities offered by ICTs by looking at the extent of increase in the use of ICT in a specific country and the factors that enable this.

"The improve in NRI proves Indonesia has been catching up with various progresses on technology, information and communication sectors especially in overcoming digital gap," said Dian Triansyah Djani, permanent representative of the Republic Indonesia to the United Nations, WTO and other international organizations in Geneva, on Wednesday.

Djani said Indonesia records the most significant upswing among all surveyed countries.

There are factors which lead to the progress such as protection over intellectual rights (67th to 57th), extent and effect of taxation (22nd to 17th), government prioritization of ICT (71st to 68th), government procurement of advanced technology (34th to 29th), importance of ICT to government's vision (85th to 62nd), internet acces in schools (59th to 50th), ICT use and government efficiency (90th to 72nd), extent of business internet use (71st to 61st), and capacity of innovation (44th to 30th).

In the 2010-2011 GITR, Indonesia shuts off NR index of major emerging economies as well as European and Latin American countries like Brazil (56), South Africa (61), Poland (62), Greece (64), Turkey (71), Federation of Russia (77) and Argentine (96).

Indonesia among other ASEAN countries are third best after Singapore, while Malaysia is ranked 28th, Vietnam 55th, Brunei Darussalam 57th, Thailand 59th, Philippines 86th, and Cambodia 111th.


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