[Vacets-local-dc] [Vietnam falls behind in e-readiness ranking ]

[Hai Tran]

Vietnam falls behind in e-readiness ranking

 Almost all Vietnam’s electronic-readiness rankings have dropped in the last two years although its information technology market has seen a huge boom, according to industry experts July 5. 
This year, the country’s e-government readiness ranking has fallen 15 places to 112th position among 199 countries, IT experts said in an industry seminar in Ho Chi Minh City.   

Other indices like the Network Readiness Index (NRI), Information Society Index (ISI), and E-Readiness ranked by UK Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU Index) have also seen sharp declines, experts said.  

Vietnam’s ISI ranking now takes the 52nd position out of 53 countries, its NRI is 68th out of 104 and EIU Index is 61st among 65, experts said. 

Meanwhile, the country’s IT market has been booming with last year’s sales growing by roughly 33 per cent from the previous year to reach 685 million USD. 

The figure is hugely impressive as world IT sales only grow 5 per cent every year, experts said. 

Source: Tuoi Tre – Compiled by Hieu Trung.



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