Networked Readiness Index
{{Short description|Index published by the World Economic Forum}}
The Networked Readiness Index is an index published annually by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with INSEAD, as part of their annual Global Information Technology Report.{{cn|date=December 2021}} It aims to measure the degree of readiness of countries to exploit opportunities offered by information and communications technology.{{cite news |url=http://knowledge.insead.edu/entrepreneurship-innovation/the-worlds-most-tech-ready-countries-2015-3953 |title=The World's Most Tech-Ready Countries 2015 |date=April 15, 2015 |publisher=INSEAD Knowledge |access-date=November 25, 2015 |archive-date=November 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123204355/http://knowledge.insead.edu/entrepreneurship-innovation/the-worlds-most-tech-ready-countries-2015-3953 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |url=http://reports.weforum.org/global-information-technology-report-2015/press-releases/ |title=Global Information Technology Report 2015 |date=15 April 2015 |publisher=World Economic Forum |access-date=6 November 2015 |archive-date=20 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151020043847/http://reports.weforum.org/global-information-technology-report-2015/press-releases/ |url-status=live }} The Networked Readiness Index was first conceived of and constructed by Geoffrey Kirkman, Jeffrey Sachs and Carlos Osorio in 2002 at Harvard University.{{Cite web |last1=Kirkman |first1=Geoffrey |last2=Sachs |first2=Jeffrey |last3=Osorio |first3=Carlos |title=The Networked Readiness Index: Measuring the Preparedness of Nations for the Networked World in The Global Information Technology Report 2001-2002: Readiness for the Networked World |url=https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=5c86bb7161c817cef430839281657f10b169e51e#page=26 |access-date=2023-10-22 |archive-date=2023-10-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022223334/https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=5c86bb7161c817cef430839281657f10b169e51e#page=26 |url-status=live }}