T&T jumps 16 places on latest global IT report

silent_riot · Postby **silent_riot** » May 10th, 2011, 9:40 am

Looks like much, but I'm not impressed.
In the high income nations group, we are fourth to last.

Go to Page 36 of the Actual Report

Anna Ramdass wrote:T&T jumps 16 places on latest global IT report

Story Created: May 8, 2011 at 10:41 PM ECT

(Story Updated: May 8, 2011 at 10:41 PM ECT )

Government's policy of distributing laptops to form one secondary school pupils has positively affected Trinidad and Tobago's rank in the World Economic Forum Gobal Information Technology Report 2010-2011, says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

On her return from Brazil last week, Persad-Bissessar, at a press conference in the VIP lounge at Piarco International Airport, said T&T jumped 16 places in the ratings, something that no other country has done before.

"I have been told that no other country has done that in one year and it was mainly because of the laptops for the students," said the PM.

According to the report which is posted on the World Economic Forum's website http://www.weforum.org this country in 2009-2010 was ranked at 79. This changed over the past year with a new ranking of 63.

The website stated that, with a record coverage of 138 economies worldwide, the report remains the world's most comprehensive and authoritative international assessment of the impact of ICT (information communications technology) on the development process and the competitiveness of nations.

"The Networked Readiness Index (NRI) featured in the report examines how prepared countries are to use ICT effectively on three dimensions: the general business, regulatory and infrastructure environment for ICT; the readiness of the three key societal actors—individuals, businesses and governments—to use and benefit from ICT; and their actual usage of available ICT."

Sweden ranked number one of all countries surveyed.

Persad-Bissessar reminded the media that there was much criticism of the laptop programme.

"Remember they said they will steal the laptops and they will mash them up. I saw that it was stolen and they got it back very quickly because of the technology we have put into it."

She said when a student takes the laptop home, "everybody else in the home gets to use so that has lifted us 16 points on the technology index compiled by the World Economic Forum".

Persad-Bissessar also reminded that the Commonwealth Society ranked this country as the third best country in the Commonwealth to grow up as a girl.

silent_riot · Postby **silent_riot** » May 10th, 2011, 10:00 am

Page 21, not page 36....

VexXx Dogg · Postby **VexXx Dogg** » May 10th, 2011, 10:06 am

one setta mamaguile
How are the laptops actually used in the curriculum?
At the end of the day this was just an election promise that they had to fulfill with no suitable forethought, infrastructure or policy.

silent_riot · Postby **silent_riot** » May 10th, 2011, 10:18 am

I find the report is very exposing to a lot of real facts. IT readiness scores were improved by Individual IT readiness, government and business readiness (ranked 89 and 86 respectively) are at the bottom of the high income nations group. The report did say however, the government index did improve from last year by 14 points.

It still is depressing that we are 45th out of 48 of the highest income countries. Don't get tie up with this 63rd out of 138 country foolishness.

mojosodope · Postby **mojosodope** » May 10th, 2011, 10:33 am

I found this funny.

Capacity for innovation
In your country, how do companies obtain technology? [1 = exclusively from licensing or imitating foreign companies; 7 = by conducting formal research and pioneering their own new products and processes] | 2009–2010 weighted average

137. Trinidad & Tobago 1.99

the only country lower than us that was rated was Angola with a 1.72...

come on man.

silent_riot · Postby **silent_riot** » May 10th, 2011, 11:16 am

Another bottom of the charts figure is residential and business monthly phone subscription. 125th and 136th respectively out of 138 countries.

silent_riot · Postby **silent_riot** » May 10th, 2011, 11:24 am

High tech exports 0%
Patents 0% lol

No one could doubt the average IQ of a trini is 85.

Barbados, on the other hand, is head and shoulders above us.

Dizzy28 · Postby **Dizzy28** » May 10th, 2011, 11:29 am

This ranking is based on Trinidadians ranking themselves as the Arthur Lok Jack GSB sends out the surveys on behalf of the WEF to local businesses.

However one thing is that by regularly being negative about ourselves we make it much more difficult to attract FDI. I'm not saying we shouldn't be truthful however by being overtly negative it affects the general view of the country globally.

silent_riot · Postby **silent_riot** » May 10th, 2011, 1:44 pm

Well an international report which is being referenced by top figures isn't helping either.

RIPEBREDFRUIT · Postby **RIPEBREDFRUIT** » May 10th, 2011, 2:15 pm

silent_riot wrote:Looks like much, but I'm not impressed.
In the high income nations group, we are fourth to last.

Go to Page 36 of the Actual Report

Anna Ramdass wrote:T&T jumps 16 places on latest global IT report

Story Created: May 8, 2011 at 10:41 PM ECT

(Story Updated: May 8, 2011 at 10:41 PM ECT )

Government's policy of distributing laptops to form one secondary school pupils has positively affected Trinidad and Tobago's rank in the World Economic Forum Gobal Information Technology Report 2010-2011, says Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar.

On her return from Brazil last week, Persad-Bissessar, at a press conference in the VIP lounge at Piarco International Airport, said T&T jumped 16 places in the ratings, something that no other country has done before.

"I have been told that no other country has done that in one year and it was mainly because of the laptops for the students," said the PM.

According to the report which is posted on the World Economic Forum's website http://www.weforum.org this country in 2009-2010 was ranked at 79. This changed over the past year with a new ranking of 63.

The website stated that, with a record coverage of 138 economies worldwide, the report remains the world's most comprehensive and authoritative international assessment of the impact of ICT (information communications technology) on the development process and the competitiveness of nations.

"The Networked Readiness Index (NRI) featured in the report examines how prepared countries are to use ICT effectively on three dimensions: the general business, regulatory and infrastructure environment for ICT; the readiness of the three key societal actors—individuals, businesses and governments—to use and benefit from ICT; and their actual usage of available ICT."

Sweden ranked number one of all countries surveyed.

Persad-Bissessar reminded the media that there was much criticism of the laptop programme.

"Remember they said they will steal the laptops and they will mash them up. I saw that it was stolen and they got it back very quickly because of the technology we have put into it."

She said when a student takes the laptop home, "everybody else in the home gets to use so that has lifted us 16 points on the technology index compiled by the World Economic Forum".

Persad-Bissessar also reminded that the Commonwealth Society ranked this country as the third best country in the Commonwealth to grow up as a girl.

We would have been rated MUCH higher had we gotten the present government alot sooner.

zcarz · Postby **zcarz** » May 10th, 2011, 5:00 pm

We always do badly in these ratings .. our capacity for innovation has been second to last for a while now... The only thing we score high in is ieconomic stability and that's likely to change. Look how well Barbados is doing , even Guyana is ahead of us in many of the ratings... It's good to see our technological capacity is supposedly increasing , hopefully this will fuel innovation .. as I always say we have a near first world economy but if our people remain third world we are destined to remain in this situation .

Humes · Postby **Humes** » May 10th, 2011, 5:21 pm

Dizzy28 wrote:However one thing is that by regularly being negative about ourselves we make it much more difficult to attract FDI. I'm not saying we shouldn't be truthful however by being overtly negative it affects the general view of the country globally.

Heh.

F*cking up Trinidad is a badge of honor for some. B*tching about the problem a much easier way to appear intelligent than actually trying to solve the problem.

Group therapy...nothing more.