[ THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 2005 12:42:49 AM]
GENEVA: Singapore has overtaken the US as the world’s best user of information and communications technology, with three Scandinavian nations close behind, according to a survey issued on Wednesday.
The US dropped to fifth from first behind Iceland, Finland and Denmark in the annual Global Information Technology report by the World Economic Forum (WEF).
Singapore ranked top in maths and science teaching, affordability of telephone connection charges, purchasing of information and communications technology (ICT) and the priority given to ICT by governments, the WEF said.
But the US was still top in business readiness, another of the report’s benchmarks, as well as in the excellence of its scientific research and business schools.
“The loss in rank is less due to actual erosion in performance. and more to continuing improvements by its competitors,” said the WEF, which stages the annual Davos economic forum.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1046596.cms
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