Spain - needs to gear-up to utilize ICT as a significant source of economic growth

Spain moves up one place to 20th position in the Connectivity Scorecard 2010 study.  However, the country’s overall ICT development is significantly below its peers across all segments with the only exception being the government sector, where it performs well.  Spain displays an inconsistent performance in the consumer and business categories overall. While the consumer and business infrastructure sub-categories display a few bright spots, the country performs weakly to very modestly on usage and complementary skills. 

The country is still well behind the UK, France, Germany and the Northern European nations of Scandinavia, the Netherlands and even Belgium on most ICT measures. It does perform better than Italy, Greece and Portugal, but this in itself reflects the weakness of those economies rather than the strength of Spain. Spain thus needs to significantly gear-up to utilize ICT as a significant source of economic growth to catch up with its peers.

Spain Connectivity Performance by Scorecard Component