IMD World Digital Competitiveness

FACTORS BREAKDOWN - STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES BOTSWANA

u Overall top strengths Overall Top Strengths

w Overall top weaknesses Overall Top Weaknesses

KNOWLEDGE

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 - - 53 42 37 - - 48 39 41 - - 63 63 64

Sub-Factors

Talent

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Training & education

Scientific concentration

Talent

Rank

Rank

Rank

- - - -

-

55 01 62 36 52

Employee training

Total expenditure on R&D (%)

Educational assessment PISA - Math

19 17 42 54 47

Total public expenditure on education

Total R&D personnel per capita

u

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

54 61 -

Graduates in Sciences

Scientific and technical employment

Digital/Technological skills

-

Women with degrees

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

Net flow of international students

TECHNOLOGY

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 - - 63 54 54 - - 56 47 06 - - 64 62 63

Sub-Factors

Regulatory framework Capital

Technological framework

Capital

Technological framework

Regulatory framework

Rank

Rank

Rank

58 64 55 63 64 63

62 57 24 36 45 49

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IT & media stock market capitalization

Communications technology

Starting a business

50 38 40 36 01

Funding for technological development

Mobile broadband subscribers

w

Enforcing contracts

Banking and financial services

Wireless broadband

u 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 (%)

u

w

Intellectual property rights

FUTURE READINESS

2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 - - 63 59 63 - - 46 51 46 - - 63 61 63

Sub-Factors Adaptive attitudes Business agility

IT integration

Business agility

IT integration

Adaptive attitudes

Rank

Rank

Rank

61 31 51 60 62 27

61

58

Opportunities and threats

E-Government

E-Participation

- - -

-

World robots distribution

Public-private partnerships

Internet retailing

59 41 45

Agility of companies

Cyber security

Tablet possession

Use of big data and analytics

Software piracy

Smartphone possession

53

Knowledge transfer

Government cyber security capacity

Attitudes toward globalization

-

Entrepreneurial fear of failure

Privacy protection by law content

65