Saudi Arabia achieves ‘enormous strides’ in global indices: ADAA

Saudi Arabia made great strides in a number of international indices in the fields of telecommunications and information society, state-owned SPA reported, citing the data of the National Center for Public Agencies Performance Measurement (ADAA).

The Kingdom advanced in a number of sub-indices of the World Digital Competitiveness Ranking, published by the IMD World Competitiveness Center, that measures the capacity and readiness of 64 countries to adopt and explore digital technologies as a key driver for economic transformation in business, government and wider society.

The methodology of the WDC ranking defines digital competitiveness into three main factors: knowledge, technology and future readiness.

Saudi Arabia was ranked ninth in talent, 17th in measuring the digital technology skills, sixth in government spending on education, seventh in investment, and 11th in internet users’ technological framework index.  

The Kingdom also came 18th in business agility and second in cyber security.