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World Economic Forum has launched the Networked Readiness Index for 2011-2012. Mongolia was listed in 63rd place among the 142 countries who were included in the index. This report evaluates the development level of information and communication technology (ICT) throughout the world and its impact on governmental competiveness.

Under the theme Living in a Hyperconnected World, the report benchmarks the progress of information and communication technology, ICT in 53 parameters, grouped into 4 sub indexes.

A. Environment subindex		95	3.6
1st pillar	Political and regulatory environment	105	3.2
2nd pillar	Business and innovation environment	69	4.0
B. Readiness subindex		40	5.2
3rd pillar	Infrastructure and digital content	64	4.2
4th pillar	Affordability	3	6.5
5th pillar	Skills	71	4.9
C. Usage subindex		75	3.4
6th pillar	Individual usage	101	2.5
7th pillar	Business usage	84	3.4
8th pillar	Government usage	44	4.3
D. Impact subindex		62	3.6
9th pillar	Economic impacts	84	3.0
10th pillar	Social impacts	51	4.1

TOP 10 countries are as following:

1.	Sweden	5.94
2.	Singapore	5.86
3.	Finland	5.81
4.	Denmark	5.70
5.	Switzerland	5.61
6.	Netherlands	5.60
7.	Norway	5.59
8.	USA	5.56
9.	Canada	5.51
10.	Great Britain	5.50
..63	Mongolia	3.95

	Indicator	Rank/142	Value
1st pillar: Political and regulatory environment
1.01	Effectiveness of law-making bodies	111	2.8
1.02	Laws relating to ICT	118	3.0
1.03	Judicial independence	122	2.6
1.04	Efficiency of legal system in settling disputes	106	3.0
1.05	Efficiency of legal system in challenging regs	114	2.9
1.06	Intellectual property protection	136	2.2
1.07	Software piracy rate, % software installed	n/a	n/a
1.08	No. procedures to enforce a contract	31	32
1.09	No. days to enforce a contract	16	314
2nd pillar: Business and innovation environment
2.01	Availability of latest technologies	120	4.1
2.02	Venture capital availability	137	1.8
2.03	Total tax rate, % profits	20	24.6
2.04	No. days to start a business	58	13
2.05	No. procedures to start a business	72	7
2.06	Intensity of local competition	96	4.5
2.07	Tertiary education gross enrollment rate, %	45	52.1
2.08	Quality of management schools	135	2.8
2.09	Gov't procurement of advanced tech	89	3.4
3rd pillar: Infrastructure and digital content
3.01	Electricity production, kWh/capita	87	1,553.9
3.02	Mobile network coverage, % pop.	106	85.0
3.03	Int'l Internet bandwidth, kb/s per user	28	48.3
3.04	Secure Internet servers/million pop.	86	10.5
3.05	Accessibility of digital content	55	5.2
4th pillar: Affordability
4.01	Mobile cellular tariffs, PPP $/min	19	0.10
4.02	Fixed broadband Internet tariffs, PPP $/month	8	16.01
4.03	Internet & telephony competition, 0–2 (best)	90	1.56
5th pillar: Skills
5.01	Quality of educational system	132	2.4
5.02	Quality of math & science education	67	4.0
5.03	Secondary education gross enrollment rate, %	53	92.9
5.04	Adult literacy rate, %	55	97.5
6th pillar: Individual usage
6.01	Mobile phone subscriptions/100 pop.	87	91.1
6.02	Individuals using Internet, %	104	12.9
6.03	Households w/ personal computer, %	81	22.3
6.04	Households w/ Internet access, %	97	7.7
6.05	Broadband Internet subscriptions/100 pop.	87	2.6
6.06	Mobile broadband subscriptions/100 pop.	79	2.3
6.07	Use of virtual social networks	100	4.7
7th pillar: Business usage
7.01	Firm-level technology absorption	90	4.5
7.02	Capacity for innovation	72	3.0
7.03	PCT patents, applications/million pop.	89	0.2
7.04	Extent of business Internet use	93	4.6
7.05	Extent of staff training	68	4.0
8th pillar: Government usage
8.01	Gov't prioritization of ICT	53	4.9
8.02	Importance of ICT to gov't vision	82	3.7
8.03	Government Online Service Index, 0–1 (best)	20	0.56
9th pillar: Economic impacts
9.01	Impact of ICT on new services and products	66	4.5
9.02	ICT PCT patents, applications/million pop.	96	0.0
9.03	Impact of ICT on new organizational models	95	3.7
9.04	Knowledge-intensive jobs, % workforce	71	20.2
10th pillar: Social impacts
10.01	Impact of ICT on access to basic services	57	4.6
10.02	Internet access in schools	69	4.1
10.03	ICT use & gov't efficiency	75	4.1
10.04	E-Participation Index, 0–1 (best)	28	0.43