Those working on ICT, infrastructure and economic development will find the 2012 version of the World Economic Forum’s Global IT report to be a great source of information about African performance in terms of ICT and ‘network readiness’.
Click HERE to view or download the report (html and pdf versions).
An extract from the report:
The level of ICT readiness in sub-Saharan Africa is still very low, with most countries evidencing strong lags in connectivity because of an insufficient development of ICT infrastructure, which remains too costly. Low levels of skills that do not allow for an efficient use of the available technology add to the challenges these countries face if they are to increase ICT uptake. Moreover, most countries still suffer from poor framework conditions for business activity that, coupled with the above-explained weaknesses, result in poor economic impacts that hinder the much-needed transformation of the region toward less resource-extraction-oriented activities and higher value-added production. Nine out of the last 10 countries in our sample belong to the region and the results evidence the digital divide the region suffers vis-รก-vis more developed regions.
