Digital Ranking 2022

Notes and Sources by Criteria

Future readiness

Adaptive attitudes

3.1.1

E-Participation UN E-Government Knowledge Database

The e-participation index (EPI) measures the use of online services to facilitate provision of information by governments to citizens (“e- information sharing”), interaction with stakeholders (“e-consultation”), and engagement in decision-making processes (“e-decision making”).

3.1.2

Internet retailing Passport Source: © Euromonitor International National sources

Retail Value excluding sales tax. Iceland Based on data from Centre for Retail Studies Iceland. Total turnover in online retail with Icelandic cards.

3.1.3

Tablet possession Passport Source: © Euromonitor International

Percentage of households having at least one item. Portable, usually battery-powered, and very thin personal computer contained with a touchscreen panel.

3.1.4

Smartphone possession Passport Source: © Euromonitor International

Percentage of households having at least one item. A smartphone is a cellular telephone with an integrated computer and other features not originally associated with telephones, such as an operating system, Web browsing, music and movie player, camera and camcorder, GPS navigation, voice dictation for messaging, the ability to run software applications, etc.

Business agility

3.2.2

World robots distribution World Robotics 2022 International Federation of Robotics (IFR)

Industrial robot as defined by ISO 8373:2012: an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes, which can be either fixed in place or mobile for use in industrial automation applications. The primary source is data on robot installations by country, industry and application that nearly all industrial robot suppliers worldwide report to the IFR Statistical Department directly. Several national robot associations collect data on their national robot markets and provide their results as secondary data to the IFR. This data is used to validate and complete the IFR primary data.

IFR Statistical Departments estimates the operational stock assuming an average service life of 12 years with an immediate withdrawal from service afterwards.

3.2.6

Entrepreneurial fear of failure Global Entrepreneurship Monitor https://www.gemconsortium.org/data

Percentage of 18-64 population perceiving good opportunities to start a business who indicate that fear of failure would prevent them from setting up a business.

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