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Botswana's world digital competitiveness up two notches

Technolodgy PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Technolodgy PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Botswana’s digital competitiveness rankings have slightly improved moving two notches up from position 63 to 61, with a competitiveness index score of 48.25 out of 100, where a total of 63 economies were assessed.

This year's rankings were two economies fewer than expected. According to the Institute for Management Development (IMD) World Digital Competitiveness Rankings, this is an improvement from last year's rank of 63 out of 64 economies assessed with a competitiveness index score of 33.004 out of 100.

The report quantifies the capacities of 63 global economies to adopt and explore new digital technologies used to transform government practices, business models, and society in general.

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