The Philippines finishes 7th among 9 'resource and efficiency-driven' economies on the Connectivity Scorecard. It achieves a score of 3.00, compared to the score of 7.59 achieved by first-placed Malaysia.
The Philippines’ performance puts it above India and Nigeria in the Scorecard, but well behind sixth-placed China and very significantly behind South Africa, Brazil, Mexico, Malaysia and Russia.
Coverage of the country by mobile networks
Consumer usage and skills, e.g. literacy rates and the equality of gender access to the Internet
Business usage and skills - mobile e-mail usage, high percentage of prime working-age population with at least a basic (primary school) level of education
E-Government ranking and provision of online government services
Business infrastructure - including PC penetration, bandwidth availability, software and hardware spending by businesses
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