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Ireland Drops In Another e$omething Index

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  • 19-04-2004 4:53pm
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    dahamsta
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    Ireland slips in e-readiness index
    Monday, April 19 2004
    by Craig Liddell

    Ireland has moved down one spot on the table of e-readiness, which this year included broadband as a factor in determining placements.

    Scandinavia topped the Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) 2004 list of e-readiness announced on Monday, claiming four of the top five spots. Denmark moved up one spot to the number one position, while the UK, Sweden, Norway and Finland rounded out the top five.

    Ireland was 16 out of 64 countries in this year's rankings, down from 15 in 2003 and 2002.

    Conducted in co-operation with IBM's Institute for Business Value, the EIU has published the annual e-readiness ranking of the world's 60 largest economies since 2000. A country's e-readiness is a measure of its e-business environment. In other words, a collection of factors that indicate how amenable a market is to Internet-based opportunities.

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    Raskolnikov
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    The report in full http://eb.eiu.com/site_info.asp?info_name=err2004

    In fairness, while Ireland is still a long way off from Scandanavia and parts of Asia, we're doing pretty well. Broadband and consumer and business adoption of e-business practices are what seem to be letting us down.

    Eircom are to blame for this almost wholly thanks to the painfully slow roll-out of broadband and high prices of both narrowband and broadband.

    €53 a month (incl. 1 month line rental) for Eircom broadband is TOO much.


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