Digital Ranking 2022

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES BOTSWANA

u Overall top strengths v r ll T Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses w Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 - - - 53 42 - - - 48 39 - - - 63 63

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

57 01 61 41 34

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Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

- - - -

Educational assessment PISA - Math

45 21 49 55 47

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

Management of cities

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

50 61 -

Digital/Technological skills

-

Women with degrees

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

Net flow of international students

TECHNOLOGY

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 - - - 63 54 - - - 56 47 - - - 64 62

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

-

61 56 45 49 42 50

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

53 63 49 62 63 62

Starting a business

51 50 39 51 41

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

w

Scientific research legislation

Investment in Telecommunications

High-tech exports (%)

w

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 - - - 63 59 - - - 46 51 - - - 63 61

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

61

59

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

59 44 51 60 61 27

E-Participation

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- -

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Internet retailing

60 49 53

Agility of companies

Cyber security

Tablet possession

16 55

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

u

55