{"id":18,"date":"2004-11-03T16:00:46","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=18"},"modified":"2004-11-03T16:00:46","modified_gmt":"2004-11-03T16:00:46","slug":"idc-information-society-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"IDC information society index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idc.com\/groups\/isi\/main.html;jsessionid=U4XXFEOLTKW3ECQJAFICFFAKBEAUMIWD\">index<\/a> was established in mid 90s and provides a statistical analysis of the degree of IT access and absorbtion within 53 countries worldwide. Ireland can only manage <b>23rd spot<\/b>, which is less than impressive considering we&#8217;re a small nation with such a disproportionate amount of our Gross Domestic Product <i>(GDP)<\/i> coming from IT. <i>(For a cold hard look at our GDP\/GNP comparisons read <a href=\"http:\/\/mahalanobis.twoday.net\/stories\/364826\/\">this<\/a>)<\/i> Our neighbours in the UK fare better in 10th, while the tech savvy danes and swedes claim 1st and 2nd place respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This index was established in mid 90s and provides a statistical analysis of the degree of IT access and absorbtion within 53 countries worldwide. Ireland can only manage 23rd spot, which is less than impressive considering we&#8217;re a small nation with such a disproportionate amount of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) coming from IT. (For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}