Well, for lack of anything better, I will translate another article recently published. It's quite boring, actually. I don't know why I'm doing this other than for practice. Tomorrow I will post my game plan for visiting the northern half of Chile. The reason for the extensive delay is that I cannot decide on visiting La Serena in northern Chile or Mendoza in Argentina first.
Chile is a Leader in Informational Technologies, but...
...That's not saying much. In terms of information within society, Chile is the respected leader within the Latino American countries.
Just after Mexico, we are the nation that has most extensively incorporated essential technologies, such as the net, computer networks and cell phones. Mostly in businesses, academic establishments, health centers and State departments, to mention a few.
According to results obtained from the Societal Informations Indicator, or Indicador de la Sociedad de la Información (ISI), and backed up by DMR Consulting and the Postgraduate University for Business Administration of Navarra (IESE-CELA):
Between October and December of 2005, ISI gave an average of 4.86 points to the sum of all Latino American countries - the highest average obtained to date - with an annual growth rate of 2.6%.
Chile (6.28) and Mexico (5) scored as the only two countries with a grade Superior within Latin America.
ISI compared the statistics of Latin American countries with some of the best, those countries that recieved the rank of Optimum; like the US or northwestern European nations - those countries averaged 9.5. And ISI also compared themselves with countries marked Sub-Optimum, for example South Korea, Portugal and Greece, which recieved an average 6.77.
Even though our country continues to stay as the leader in the region, the gap between well developed countries of Europe or the US and semi-developed countries like Chile is far wider than the chasm between Chile and third-world countries,^ said DMR Counsulting representative, Juan Francisco Yáñez.
¨Analysis has permited us at ISI to conclude that there exists a infrastructural hole in basic technologies (TI), that is pertinent to sustain Chilean markets. In part, this is due to medium and small businesses unwilling to make the switch to the internet,¨ said Yàñez.
¨We don't do the first point and leave without finishing the second point (NOTE: This is hard to translate, basically he's saying that Chile can't be satisfied with large businness going digital). There is an arduous job to do. We need to penetrate the markets with newer technology,¨ continued Yáñez.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment