India stood at the 44th position among 50 different countries in a Global Connectivity Index (GCI) report (pdf) compiled by Huawei. The top spot has been taken by the US followed by Singapore. Among neighboring countries, Bangladesh stood at second last position (49th), Pakistan stood in the last position (50th), and China stood at the 23rd position. According to Huawei, the GCI score for each country has been calculated on the basis of its ICT infrastructure including broadband, data centers, cloud services, big data and IoT. The GCI findings from 50 countries account for about 90% of the global GDP, and 78% of the global population, added the report. Huawei claims that the GCI also includes survey results from 3,000 firms across 10 verticals in 10 nations. India on the Global Connectivity Index India has a GCI score of 30, this puts the country among ‘Starters’ who are still working on building a reliable connectivity, and on spreading the connection base. According to Huawei, India should be focusing on speeding up its National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) broadband connectivity project that aims to connect 90,000 villages by 2017. Other strategies for increasing mobile broadband supply would further increase demand in the nation. Huawei adds that both the public and private sectors needs to invest in their networks to serve the growing subscriber base, and provide universal broadband access with digital literacy programs to close the rural-urban divide. How the GCI is calculated The methodology for calculating GCI broadly includes four…
