IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES SOUTH AFRICA

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 49 59 58 57 60 58 60 62 50 49 48 53 53 53 53

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

48 53 15 20

-

54 02 60 40 56 55

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

Educational assessment PISA - Math

58 53 62 57 35

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

u

International experience

Higher education achievement

Female researchers

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

55 45

Women with degrees

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

Net flow of international students

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 53 56 59 53 56 30 32 36 51 45 59 57 61 60 61

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

57 62 37 62 59 54

59 51 61 55 43 47

05 58 53 57 59 12

IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

u

Starting a business

Funding for technological development

Mobile broadband subscribers

w

Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

w 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 (%)

u

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 55 59 59 57 57 40 58 59 57 54 42 50 55 55 56

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

53 62 55 20 47 49

50 57 55 28 41

36 32 47 33 56 46

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

E-Participation

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

w

Internet retailing

Agility of companies

Cyber security

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

Smartphone possession

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

Attitudes toward globalization

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

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