ICT – based developments
ranging from awareness programmes to industry support facility
improvements in rural areas through various programmes of the Information
and Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) under the e-Sri Lanka
initiative have contributed to Sri Lanka reaching higher rungs in the ICT
savvy ladder. This is the ICTA’s Monitoring and Evaluation analysts’
assessment of the Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009, released
by the World Economic Forum recently.According to the report produced
in co-operation with Harvard University, Sri Lanka’s overall rank of
Networked Readiness Index (NRI) has improved dramatically from 86th
position out of 122 in 2006/07 to 79th position out of 127 countries in
2007/08 to 72nd position out of 134 countries in 2008/09.
The NRI measures the propensity for countries to use the opportunities
offered by ICT. The NRI is arrived at based on about 68 subcomponents
which are closely related to ICT for development. The required information
to compute NRI is based on structured interviews of 100 randomly selected
higher level private and public sector executives and published secondary
data.
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