Digital Ranking 2022

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SOUTH AFRICA

u Overall top strengths v r ll T Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses w Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 54 49 59 58 57 54 58 60 62 50 47 48 53 53 53

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

55 02 60 37 56 54

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Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

44 49 15 25

Educational assessment PISA - Math

53 44 61 56 34

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

u

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

w

u

Foreign highly-skilled personnel

Pupil-teacher ratio (tertiary education)

R&D productivity by publication

u

w Management of cities

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

-

Digital/Technological skills

Women with degrees

High-tech patent grants Robots in Education and R&D

56 40

Net flow of international students

TECHNOLOGY

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 53 53 56 59 53 27 30 32 36 51 58 59 57 61 60

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

07 58 54 56 60 30

58 50 55 54 40 45

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

59 61 42 61 54 55

u

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile Broadband subscribers

w

Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

Immigration laws

Country credit rating

Internet users

w

Development & application of tech.

Venture capital

Internet bandwidth speed

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 56 55 59 59 57 38 40 58 59 57 39 42 50 55 55

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

55 32 61 27 48 45

44 56 56 37 47

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

55 59 56 20 46 49

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

w

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

u

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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