NETWORK READINESS INDEX 2022: UPSC Important Topic | 25 November 2022

NETWORK READINESS INDEX 2022

✓ Direction: There will be 100s of reports. Don’t need to know every one of them. For prelims just go through it once. For mains, know one major report in each theme of the syllabus wherever applicable.

✓ Context: India is now placed at 61st rank (out of 134 countries) as per the Network Readiness Index 2022 (NRI 2022). It improved its position by 6 ranks

✓ Network readiness is a key indicator of how countries are doing in the digital world

The report has been prepared by the Portulans Institute, an independent non-profit, nonpartisan research and educational institute based in Washington DC.

✓ India leads in several indicators such as 1st rank in “AI talent concentration”, 2nd rank in “Mobile broadband internet traffic within the country” etc.

✓ United States takes the 1st spot from the Netherlands (4th) as the most network-ready society.