Executive summary When The Global Information Technology Report (GITR) and the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) were created some 12 years ago, the attention of decision makers and investors was on adopting business and financial strategies that would allow them to develop in the context of a fast-moving but nascent Internet economy. Over more than a...

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The Global Information Technology Report 2012 is a special project within the framework of the World Economic Forum's Centre for Global Competitiveness and Performance and the Industry Partnership Programme for Information Technology and Telecommunications Industries regarding Living in a Hyperconnected World. World Economic Forum and INSEAD, Insight Report - edited by Soumitra Dutta and Beñat...

This report is based on a survey of 469 experts from industry, government, academia and civil society that examines 50 global risks across five categories.