Peru improves overall score in World Digital Competitiveness Ranking

The study was carried out by the Switerzerland-heaquartered International Institute for Management Development (IMD). 

The WDCR assesses the capacity of 63 economies to adopt and explore digital technologies leading to transformation in government practices, business models, and society in general.

In order to evaluate an economy, WDCR examines three factors: knowledge, which measures the know-how necessary to discover, understand and build new technologies; technology, which evaluates the overall context that enables the development of digital technologies; and future readiness, which assesses the level of preparedness to exploit digital transformations.

Although Peru's score went up, it moved down one position in the ranking (61st spot). Thus, it is still at the bottom of the list.

"However, it displayed significant improvements in technology adoption by citizens (adaptive attitudes up from 59th to 49th) and education (public expenditure in education and the share of graduates in sciences increased)," it said. 

Furthermore, the Inca country climbed one spot in the Future Readiness pillar. 

The ranking is topped by the United States, followed by Singapore (2nd), and Sweden (3rd).

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