The Studies and Surveys of e-Readiness Evaluation for Countries

There are organizations to evaluate the capability of leveraging information and communication technologies to strength the national competitiveness, they first set up a conceptual framework to classify those indicators to the subindex/subcategories they related, and portion out the weight for calculating the score, then they continue to measure the value for each indicator in every countries. Finally, they analyze and sum up the value of these indicators/variables to rank the countries they survey.

The organizations most well known for publishing the reports in the world are:
1. OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) - The Information Economy Indicators
(1) OECD Information Technology Outlook(1995~)
(2) Defining and Measuring e-Commerce: A Status Report(1999)
(3) STI Scoreboard 2001(2001)
(4) Measuring the Information Economy(2002)
2. WEF (World Economic Forum) - The Networked Readiness Index
(1) Global Information Technology Report(2001~)
3. EIU ( Economist Intelligence Unit) - The e-Readiness Index
(1) The e-Readiness Rankings(2000~)
4. IDC (International Data Corporation) -The Information Society Index
(1) The Information Society Index(1996~)

The organizations which play a functional role to gather and aggregate the data for specific indicator from countries are:
1. ITU (International Telecommunication Union)
(1) World Telecommunication Indicators Database(2004)
(2) Yearbook of Statistics Chronological Time Series 1993-2002(2004)
(3) Asia-Pacific Telecommunication Indicators 2004(2004)
(4) Visions of the Information Society(2003)
(5) ITU Internet Reports(2001~)
(6) The Internet Story: ITU Internet Reports 1997 - 2003(2004)
2. ISOC (Internet Society)
(1) The Internet Connectivity Survey by ISOC Chapters(on the websites of each ISOC Chapters)
3. APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation)
(1) E-Commerce Readiness in East Asian APEC Economies(2002)
(2) Domain Name Registration Survey Report(2000)