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adewijaya
2011-06-10, 12:15 AM
World Rank Mobile Broadband Connectivity Scorecard 2011
Contents
1. About this report..................................................................................................... 3
2. The Connectivity Scorecard Concept................................................................... 4
2.1. Connectivity...................................................................................................... 4
2.2. “Useful connectivity”......................................................................................... 4
2.3. What makes this Scorecard different? Connectivity and Economic
Performance................................................................................................................. 5
2.4. Comparisons with other composite indices ..................................................... 8
Figure 1: Schematic representation of methodology................................................ 9
2.5. How “useful” is Connectivity? A worthwhile reminder...................................... 9
2.5.1. ICT, Jobs and Economic Performance .................................................... 9
2.5.2. ICT, Globalisation and Socio-Economic Benefits .................................. 14
3. Connectivity Scorecard 2008/09/10: What we did and what we found ........... 16
3.1. 2008 and 2009 Scorecards............................................................................ 16
Table 3: 2009 Connectivity Scorecard Results .......................................................... 18
3.2. The 2010 version of the Scorecard................................................................ 19
4. Connectivity Scorecard 2011: Results, Highlights and Discussion................ 21
4.1. 2011 Results .................................................................................................. 21
4.2. Highlights of results........................................................................................ 22
4.2.1. Innovation economies ............................................................................ 22
4.2.2. Resource and Efficiency economies...................................................... 25
4.3. Innovations in 2011 ........................................................................................ 27
4.3.1. New indicators........................................................................................ 27
4.3.2. New Weights .......................................................................................... 30
5. Further Notes on Methodology, Inference and Data......................................... 33
5.1. Updated Data versus New Methodology ....................................................... 33
5.2. Backwards Compatibility Versus Innovation.................................................. 34
5.3. Statistical Significance and Clustering........................................................... 36
5.4. Resource and Efficiency Economies: Particular Comments ......................... 40
5.5. Key Data Differences With Other Composite Indices.................................... 41
5.5.1. Inclusion of “soft” variables .................................................................... 41
5.5.2. Pricing data ............................................................................................ 41
5.6. Relative versus absolute scores .................................................................... 42
5.7. Sensitivities of Scores to Weights.................................................................. 43
6. Conclusions .......................................................................................................... 45
6.1. Innovation economies .................................................................................... 45
6.2. Resource and Efficiency economies.............................................................. 45
7. List of Indicators: Innovation Economies.......................................................... 47
8. List of Indicators: Resource and Efficiency Economies .................................. 52
9. Appendix 1: Further Data Notes.......................................................................... 56
9.1. Notes on Innovation Economy Indicators ...................................................... 56
9.1.1. Consumer Infrastructure Indicators........................................................ 56
9.1.2. Consumer Usage Indicators .................................................................. 56
9.1.3. Business infrastructure .......................................................................... 57
9.1.4. Business Usage ..................................................................................... 57
9.1.5. Public sector indicators .......................................................................... 58
9.2. Notes on R&E Indicators................................................................................ 58
9.2.1. Consumer Infrastructure Indicators........................................................ 58
9.2.2. Consumer Usage Indicators .................................................................. 58
9.2.3. Business Infrastructure Indicators.......................................................... 59
9.2.4. Business Usage Indicators .................................................................... 59
9.2.5. Public sector components...................................................................... 59
9.3. Additional general comments on the indicators ............................................. 59
10. Appendix 2: Selected Methodology Q&A’s Discussed in 2010 Scorecard 62

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