The annual Global IT Report remains the world’s most comprehensive and authoritative international assessment of the impact of information communications technologies (ICTs) on the development process and the competitiveness of nations.
The NRI, featured in the report, ex-amines how prepared countries are to use ICT effectively across three component sub-indexes: the general business, regulatory, and infrastructure environment; the readiness of the three key stakeholder groups in a society: individuals, businesses, and governments to use and benefit ICT; and the actual usage of the latest ICTs available.
Oman’s biggest achievement was in the NRI’s sub-index of Individual Readiness of IT, which has been elevated to position 40.
Compared to last year’s ranking of 87, it has jumped 47 points.“Such improvement in the Individual Readiness rank is due to the government’s prioritisation for capacity building and enhancing the ICT skills in society,” a spokeswoman for the In-formation Technology Authority (ITA) said.
Contributing to the rise of the NRI ranking is the overall improvement in the Government Readiness Index which has jumped six points, from the rank of 19th in 2009 to 13th in 2010.
Dr Salim Al Ruzaiqi, CEO of ITA, not-ed that government entities were following closely the global development in eGovernment, “thereby creating citizen-centric electronic services for the society. Such eServices are available through various government portals and help to make government operate in a more transparent manner”.
“As an increase in the availability of public sector eServices is expected to occur in the near future and associated infrastructure is still expected to grow, improving Oman’s ranking further in the Global IT Report for the next few years is expected,” he added.
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Quelle/Source: Khaleej Times, 18.04.2011
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