LIRNEasia, a regional Information and Communication Technology policy and regulation research and capacity-building organisation, seeks to improve the lives of the people of Asia by facilitating their use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) by catalysing reform of laws, policies and regulations to enable those uses and by building Asia-based human capacity through research, training, consulting and advocacy.
Ms Payal Malik, a New-Delhi based Senior Researcher of LIRNEasia, said that India was ranked 119 among 180 countries in the global digital opportunity index (DOI). The DOI - which was decided upon by stakeholders participating in the 2nd World Summit on Information Society held in Tunisia last year - identified 11 indicators across three broad categories such as opportunity, infrastructure and utilisation as yardsticks for the ranking exercise. However, based on historical data gathered for 2001-2005, India ranked first in terms of being able to bridge the domestic digital divide. While India did well on this score, the country performed poorly as the lack of competition in the fixed telephony sector impacted the rollout of basic infrastructure and Internet access.
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