Costa Rica Leads
Central America
in Information
Technology
Costa Rica leads
in Central
America in
information
technology
according to the
World Economic
Forum and Insead
Business School,
one of the
world's leading
and largest
graduate
business
schools.
The report,
Global
Information
Technology
Report
2009-2010, ranks
Costa Rica first
place in Central
America,
49th place
worldwide, ahead
of Panama (58),
El Salvador
(81), Guatemala
(83), Honduras
(106) and
Nicaragua (125).
In Latin
America, Costa
Rican ranked
third, behind
Chile (40) and
Puerto Rica
(45).
The ranking
included 133
countries, and
attempts to
measure three
components:
1) The degree to
which a national
environment is
conducive to ICT
development and
diffusion, by
taking into
account a number
of features of
the broad
business
environment,
some regulatory
aspects, and the
soft and hard
infrastructure
for ICT.
2) The extent to
which the three
main national
stakeholders in
a society (i.e.,
individuals, the
business sector,
and the
government) are
inclined and
prepared to use
ICT in their
daily activities
and operation.
3) The actual
use of ICT by
the above three
stakeholders.
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