Belarus ahead of Russia, Kazakhstan in ICT development index

Belarus is ahead of Russia and Kazakhstan as far as the information and communication technologies development index is concerned, the press service of the Belarusian Information Technologies and Communications Ministry told BelTA.

The International Telecommunication Union has released an annual report titled as Measuring the Information Society. In accordance with the information and communication technologies development report Belarus is ahead of Russia and Kazakhstan and occupies the 38th position with its index at 6.89, said the press service.

According to the source, for the first time since the national program for accelerated development of services in the sphere of information and communication technologies in 2011-2015 was launched, Belarus is the CIS leader and is ahead of Russia (42nd position) and Kazakhstan (53rd position).

The press service stressed that Belarus’ successful advancement of information and communication technologies has been praised by ITU experts for years. Judging by results achieved in 2013 Belarus has been noted as one of the world’s nine economies with the largest changes in ICT access, which reflects the technical level of development of the modern infrastructure in the country.

The report relies on innovative and respected instruments used to measure control parameters. The instruments have been developed by the ITU to monitor the development of the information society across the globe. The report surveys 166 economies of the world taking the data of 2013 and comparing it with the data of 2012. In a stunning turn of events Denmark is ahead of Korea in the development of information and communication technologies. The two countries are followed by Sweden, Iceland, the UK and Norway. The top 10 also includes Netherlands, Finland, Hong Kong (China) and Luxembourg.