Vietnam jumps 10 places in ICT Development Index

Vietnam ranks 81st among 152 countries in the International Telecommunication Union’s ICT Development Index (IDI), moving up 10 places from its 91st position in 2008, the Ministry of Information and Communication said on September 26. 

According to the ITU’s report Measuring the Information Society 2011, Vietnam’s IDI value rose from 2.76 in 2008 to 3.53 in 2010 with the growing number of broadband internet subscribers in the country from zero within three years. 

In addition, Vietnam jumped 16 places up in the ranking of the access sub-index compared to 2008. 

The country was place third after Armenia and Morocco among ten countries having the highest IDI growth rates in the past three years.

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