The World Economic Forum has published its Global Information Technology Report 2010-2011 that ranks countries on a wide range of information technologies metrics. The report describes itself as "the world’s most comprehensive and authoritative international assessment of the impact of ICT on the development process and the competitiveness of nations." Canada ranks 8th worldwide on the Network Readiness index down from 7th the year before.  More interesting are the rankings on the issues that lead to the overall ranking.  They include:

Issue	Rank
Average cost per minute mobile phone calls	66th
Mobile telephone subscriptions	95th
Mobile subscriptions with data access	68th
Fixed broadband Internet monthly subscription charge	23rd
Government prioritization of ICT	31st
Government procurement of advanced technology products	25th
Importance of ICT to government vision of the future	28th
Household with a personal computer	10th
Broadband Internet subscribers	10th
Internet users	11th
Internet access in schools	13th
Use of virtual social networks	6th
Impact of ICT on access to basic services	23rd

In addition to this data, the report also includes several legal ICT rankings including Canada ranking 10th for laws relating to ICT (ahead of the US, UK, Germany, and France) and 13th for intellectual property protection (ahead of the US, UK, and Japan).

Originally posted on Michael Geist's Blog