India’s Connectivity Ranking Reveals Much Room For Improvement

Despite India’s reputation as an emerging ICT giant, the Connectivity Scorecard highlights some important areas of weakness.  Broadband and internet penetration are quite low, scoring well behind the consumer infrastructure seen in the countries at the top of the sample.  Mobile penetration is much better with almost 20 percent of the population counting themselves as subscribers. Consumer internet usage is very low and 40 percent of the population are illiterate.

India’s business infrastructure also ranks at the bottom end of the scale, due to weak penetration of both PC’s and secure servers.  The availability of international bandwidth is similarly low, as are international traffic volumes and the amount of business spending on IT resources.  Secondary school enrollment is also near the bottom of the nations surveyed.  India’s E-Government ranking is strong, due to considerable availability of online services.

India Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component