Belarus is now ranked 36th in the ranking of the International Telecommunication Union on the information and communication technology index (ICT), the press service of the Ministry of Communications and Informatization announced.
According to the press service, the International Telecommunication Union presented the seventh annual Measuring the Information Society Report 2015, containing the rating of the ICT Development Index. Over the past 5 years, Belarus has risen in the ranking by 14 positions. During the year, the country has improved its positions by 2 points and now it is occupying 36th place, Belarus is still ahead of Russia (45th place) and Kazakhstan (58th place).
Republic of Korea tops the list, and the value of its ICT development index has increased from 8.64 (2010) to 8.93. Also in 2015, eight European countries have entered the top-10 (Denmark, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Norway), and one — from Asia (Hong Kong, China).
The press service stresses that Belarus is marked by experts as a dynamically developing country, where for the past five years there has been a significant increase in the penetration of mobile broadband together with a certain increase in the share of households with computers, and households with access to the Internet, bandwidth of the International Internet traffic per user and the number of subscribers of cellular mobile telecommunications.
The achieved results confirm the validity, relevance and timeliness of the implementation of key measures of the subprogram “National information and communication infrastructure”, implemented by the National Programme for accelerated development of the services in the field of information and communication technologies for 2011-2015.
“In the current report, the advances in ICT over the last five years have been analyzed by the six regions of the Bureau of the International Telecommunication Union (Africa, Americas, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Europe), as well as by 167 economies around the world. The results of the analysis indicate that for the period from 2010 to 2015 all countries included in the ranking have managed to improve their performance on the ICT Development Index, which indicates the continuous development of the global information society ”, — Ministry of Communications pointes out.
Source: BelTA