Montenegro is in the new report World Economic Forum (WEF) on competitiveness in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) fell two places and took the 46th position among 142 ranked countries.
In 11 Global Report on Information Technology, Montenegro fell two positions compared to last year. This year, a new, significantly changed evaluation methodology was used, but regardless of this change, Sweden, Singapore and Finland are the leading countries in the world in terms of readiness to use ICT.
In fourth place is Denmark, which recorded an increase from last year's seventh position, while in fifth place is Switzerland, which recorded a drop by one place.
The Netherlands recorded a more significant shift from 11th to sixth position, as did Great Britain, which entered the top ten in the ranking list.
The network readiness index, on which the research is based, includes four sub-indices - the business, regulatory and infrastructural environment for ICT, the readiness sub-index which includes infrastructure and digital content, acceptability and skills, then the readiness of the individual, the business sector and the government for greater use of ICT, as well as social and economic impact on ICT.
Out of a total of ten areas, Montenegro achieved the best result in the field of skills within the readiness sub-index, where it is in 28th place.
Regarding subscriptions to mobile telephony in relation to the number of inhabitants, Montenegro occupies the third position, and in terms of individual use of the Internet it is in 44th place.
In areas such as business and regulatory, i.e. infrastructural environment, Montenegro ranked 61st and 38th respectively.
Regarding the readiness of individuals, the business sector and the government, it ranks 50th, 70th and 53rd, respectively.
The United States of America (USA) recorded a significant drop from fifth to eighth place. Taiwan, which after last year's fifth position, is now in 11th place, and Korea, which this year is in 12th place from the former tenth position, recorded a decline.
For Asian countries, with the exception of Singapore, this is to a considerable extent about the significant impact of methodological changes that corrected their position downwards.
This is most visible in the example of China, which replaced last year's 36th position with 51st place, that is, it was out of the Top 50 countries in terms of ICT readiness.
Slovenia, which fell from 34th to 37th position, and the Czech Republic, which fell from 40th to 42nd place, recorded a worsening trend.
A significant improvement this year was recorded by Poland, which replaced last year's 62nd place with 49th position.
Despite the change in the calculation method, the countries of Southeast Europe do not record significant changes in position.
Of the countries in the region, the best positioned is Slovenia, which ranks 37th. They are followed by Croatia in 45th place, Macedonia in 66th place, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) in 84th position and Serbia in 85th place.
The last place in this year's report was taken by the Central American country of Haiti.
The study was jointly prepared by the World Economic Forum and the leading international business school INSEAD.
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