OK, maybe the news isn't as catastrophic as that, but it can't be a good thing that the world's self-proclaimed technology leader has plummeted from the top spot to seventh place in the World Economic Forum's (WEF) annual "networked readiness index" released Wednesday.
Yet that's where the United States finds itself in the 2007 index, which measures the ability of 122 countries to use information technology to drive economic growth and development. Ranking ahead of the U.S. (in order) were: Denmark, Sweden, Singapore, Finland, Switzerland and the Netherlands.
According to
this article, the WEF study "largely blamed increased political and corporate interference in the judicial system."
In Bush's America? Why, that's just
absurd!
The study also cites:
the United States' low rate of mobile telephone usage
a lack of government leadership in information technology
the low quality of math and science education
Well, now they're just getting picky. Makes you wonder what kind of anti-American agenda the Geneva-based WEF has! It's enough to make me cancel my WEF membership, if I actually had one.
Perhaps the World Economic Forum should focus instead on ranking countries on something
truly important, like how many good singers they have.
How you like us now, Denmark?
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