Could the Development of On-line Services Contribute to Global Competitiveness?

摘要

The paper analyzes the United Nations (UN)'on-line services index (OSI), which is one of the components of their e-government development index (EGDI); and the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s global competitiveness index (GCI). Then, we identify whether or not a Pearson "r" correlation exists between these two indexes. To do so, we have analyzed indexes from the years 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018. Our findings show that a high positive correlation does exist, and the respective conclusions and further work are drawn from our findings. They showed a general correlation average of 0.80 (high correlation) between the OSI and GCI indexes studied, therefore it would stand to reason that on-line services development does indeed contribute to the factors that would improve global competitiveness, making this analysis not a causality study.