This coun­try has moved up three notch­es from 70 to 67 in the World Eco­nom­ic Fo­rum's (WEF) 2016 Glob­al In­for­ma­tion and Tech­nol­o­gy Re­port.

The re­port, one of the most com­pre­hen­sive and au­thor­i­ta­tive as­sess­ments of the im­pact of ICT on the com­pet­i­tive­ness of na­tions, was re­leased on Thurs­day even at the Arthur Lok Jack Grad­u­ate School of Busi­ness (ALJGSB), Mount Hope. It shows that in the rank­ing of 143 coun­tries T&T had a slight im­prove­ment in its over­all score, up to 4.1 from 4.0, with its best show­ing in tech­nol­o­gy readi­ness.

Weak­er us­age and im­pact sub-in­dices sug­gests that the coun­try is pro­vid­ing the in­fra­struc­ture, mak­ing it af­ford­able and has the skill lev­el nec­es­sary but is not get­ting the lev­el of us­age, par­tic­u­lar­ly at the lev­el of busi­ness­es and gov­ern­ment. As a re­sult, T&T is un­able to ful­ly de­ploy ICT to en­hance its so­cial and eco­nom­ic stand­ing, the re­port said.

The find­ings of this year's re­port, themed The Role of Dig­i­tal Tech­nol­o­gy in In­no­va­tion, were re­leased by Dr Bal­raj Kistow, lec­tur­er and pro­gramme di­rec­tor at ALJGSB.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Pub­lic Ad­min­is­tra­tion Min­is­ter Max­ie Cuffie gave the keynote ad­dress, which was fol­lowed by a pan­el dis­cus­sion.