Britain second Web-savviest nation in world

Who is the first.....

[ukgimp]

Not the Yanks - lol :)

Second last year, Denmark snatched Sweden's pole position after establishing a government portal Web site which pulls together five ministries and 24 other organisations where companies can access services

reuters [reuters.co.uk]

[Sinner_G]

U.S. computer company International Business Machines

Can you imagine I needed 10 minutes to realise who this is?

And Switzerland fell 2 places to 10th, overtaken by HongKong and Singapore. I mean, small wonder, it's not difficult to put broadband connection there, with so small countries with no mountains! :)

[grelmar]

Gah! Canada fell out of the top ten. That really surprises me, and our overall score dropped from 8.2 to 7.93

What happened, eh?

[bcolflesh]

According to this:

[neko.mi.org...]

They must be including British Columbia smokers this year, hoser.

[Jon_King]

I would have thought France would be up near the top.

I remember 15 years ago being in Paris and visiting a friend and he loged onto the 'internet' and checked a TGV Bullet Train schedule. Then, I coundn't help but think how ahead of the cruve they were.

[bcolflesh]

and he logged onto the 'internet'

More likely it was the Minitel system:

[adminet.com...]

[Josefu]

Yes, france was way ahead with its nationalised and fairly-cheap minitel, but since then France Telecom (still a government company) had gotten profit-greedy and hiked all its rates. It set a super-high price on the first ADSL lines and when the government opened the net-access market to competition the newcomer companies just jumped on the profit bandwagon, making net access remain a dear thing to all. Prices have just begun dropping to reasonable rates this year, so voila the reason for France's - um - 'retard' : )

No slander meant there, I've been living here (Paris) since 1989. I love a lot of things about this city but can't agree with everything they do, LOL.