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Nigeria Ranks 137th In ICT Development Index by dayskid: 4:30pm On Dec 21, 2016 |
Seychelles, S’Africa 14 others lead
Africa
It appears there has not been any
significant upward shift in Information
and Communications Technology (ICT)
development in Nigeria in the last one
year; this is because the country has
ranked 137thout of 175 countries
surveyed on technology growth in 2016.
According to the International
Telecommunications Union (ITU) in its
‘Measuring the Information Society’
report on ICT Development Index (IDI)
made available to The Guardian on
Monday, Nigeria, which ranked
137th last year still remained on the
same spot in 2016. Though, the IDI in
2015 was 2.48 per cent, which slightly
climbed to 2.72 in the outgoing year.
The IDI is an index published by the
United Nations, International
Telecommunication Union (ITU), based on
internationally agreed information and
communication technologies (ICT)
indicators. The IDI is based on 11 ICT
indicators, grouped in three clusters:
access, use and skills.
According to the report, South Korea,
which ranked number one in 2015, with
8.78 per cent IDI penetration maintained
the same position in 2016, even with
higher IDI of 8.84 per cent penetration.
The other nine countries in the top 10
ranking are:
· Iceland (8.83 per cent);
· Denmark (8.74 per cent);
· Switzerland (8.68 per cent);
· United Kingdom (8.57 per cent);
· Hong Kong (8.46 per cent);
· Sweden (8.45 per cent);
· Netherland (8.43 per cent);
· Norway (8.42 per cent); and,
· Japan (8.37 per cent).
The United States of America is ranked
15th with 8.17 per cent penetration.
With Seychelles ranking 87th and 5.03
IDI penetration from 85th position and
4.77 per cent in 2015, the country leads
other African countries. South Africa is
next with 5.03 per cent and 88th position
from 4.70 per cent in 2015.Tunisia is
next. It had a slight IDI growth of 4.83
per cent in 2016 from 4.49 per cent it
had in 2015, which placed it at 95th
position.
Commenting, the Director
Telecommunication Development Bureau
(BDT), ITU, Brahima Sanou, said this
year’s results showed that nearly all of
the 175 countries covered by the index
improved their IDI values between 2015
and 2016.
He stressed that during the same period,
stronger improvements were made on ICT
use than access, mainly as a result of
strong growth in mobile-broadband
uptake globally.
This, he said, allowed an increasing
number of people, particular from the
developing world, to join the information
society and benefit from the many
services and applications provided
through the Internet.
“This year, for the first time, the report
also shows countries’ rankings according
to their improvement in IDI value. The
results show strong improvements in
performance throughout the world; a
number of middle income developing
countries in particular are reaping the
benefits of more liberalised and
competitive ICT markets that encourage
innovation and ICT uptake across all
sectors,” he stated.
He explained that despite these
encouraging developments, there is need
to focus on the countries that are among
the least connected in the world, “urgent
action is required to address this
persistent digital divide if we want to
achieve the Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) enshrined in the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development. For
example, the report shows that in some
low-income countries, between 20 and 40
per cent of people still do not own a
mobile phone and that the gender gap in
mobile phone ownership is substantially
higher.”
The report observed that there is a strong
association between economic and ICT
development, with the least developed
countries at a particular disadvantage.
According to it, the average IDI value for
developed countries (7.40) is 3.33 points
higher than that for developing countries
(4.07), although developing countries
improved their IDI value more than
developed countries.
There is also a strong association between
the least connected countries, countries
that are in the bottom quartile of the IDI
2016 distribution, and least developed
countries. Indeed, the bottom 27
countries are all least developed
countries, and the gap in IDI values
between these countries and higher-
performing developing countries
continues to widen. |
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