Good Scorecard Position May Flatter Botswana

Botswana finishes 10th out of 25 resource and efficiency-driven economies on the 2009 Connectivity Scorecard. However, limited data availability means that results should be interpreted cautiously.

Botswana performs moderately well on available consumer measures such as mobile telephone take-up and coverage of the population by mobile telephone networks.  On the business front, Botswana also appears to perform relatively well on the measure of outgoing international traffic.  However, broadband penetration is very low, as is availability of outgoing international bandwidth.  Data on business and government spending on hardware, software and computer services was not available.

Botswana earns a notably high “e-government” ranking but the government sector carries but a very modest weight in the overall scorecard.

Botswana Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component