Week 5: models

How does Australia rate?The Global Information Technology Report 2008-2009 was released at the world economic forum in the past few days (March 2009). See http://www.weforum.org/en/index.htm A countries 'Technology readiness' is an important part of its eBusiness readiness.Spend some time looking at the Technology report, particularly the country profiles and rankings. Use some of the tools to answer the following -


1) What is the Mobile phone use /100 population - compare Australia, USA, China, India
· Australia: 102.5
· USA: 83.5
· China: 41.2
· India: 20.0


2) Internet use population - compare Australia, USA, China, India
· Australia: 54.2
· USA: 71.9
· China: 15.8
· India: 6.9

3) Compare main strengths and weaknesses of Australia in the survey.
Strengths:
· Political regulory environment
· Infrastructure environment
· Individual readiness
Weakeness
· Market environment
· Business readiness
· Government readiness
By looking at the survey Australia was not ranked completely low. There was afew areas which Australia needs to improve on to become ranked higher.

4) What does the survey suggest to you about the Information Technology readiness of Australian business compared to Australian consumers?
This survey suggests that Australian business readiness is ranked 22 compared to individual Australian consumer which is ranked 13. This shows that the Australian consumer is ranked higher than Australian businesses.


All information is sourced through this website:
World Economic forum.(2009). The global information technology report. Retrieved April 25, 2009 from: http://www.insead.edu/v1/gitr/wef/main/fullreport/index.html