ICT Development Strategies

After a decade internet now reaches the Asian region as well as African countries intensively while USA Canada and Europe are focusing newer inventions. Within the Asian region it exists considerably another technological gap among countries. The countries with higher income such as Japan Singapore South Korea has succeeded in implementing ICT in all social and economic areas. The rest of the countries including China Malaysia Thailand Indonesia Philippines Vietnam Laos Cambodia are far behind in information technology. Nevertheless it´s necessary for all nations weather developed or developing to keep on nurturing ICT development to be a part of connected world. The question is how a nation can successfully adopt ICT and benefit from all advantages at best. Unfortunately there is no common guideline for all countries. Without identifying specific factors of each country and a lot of effort made by government no country can achieve high ICT performance in the long run. The purpose of this paper is three-fold:To identify the characteristics and political options of a country that would affect the success of ist ICT adoption. To identify clusters of nations upon the international ICT indices and GNI per capita To provide an overall guideline that incorporates these nations toward developing higher ICT indices.This paper shows income level and social background can play very important roles in country´s ICT development.