Professor, Siva Sivani Institute of Management, Secunderabad
Online published on 4 June, 2013.
Net work Readiness Index (NRI) has become the most comprehensive and valued international assessment of preparedness of economies to leverage the net worked economy. This NRI represents three sub indexes like environment index, readiness index and usage index. Against this backdrop, this paper makes an attempt to examine the comparative status of India among the emerging economies like BRICS in terms of NRI and its related indicators during the period 2007–08 to 2011–12. All BRICS nations indicated moderately advantageous position in terms of rank and score relating to NRI during the period under consideration. It is evident that out of all BRICS, China is relatively more comfortable than the rest of the countries during the study period. Based on the results this study suggests that Russia has to focus on the scores of the indexes relating to RSI, PRE, BR, BU, and GU since these are indicating disadvantageous position. It also suggests that India has to focus on infrastructure environment for the rapid development of ICT.
