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After a decade, internet now reaches the Asian region as well as African countries intensively while USA, Canada and Europe are focusing newer inventions. Within the Asian region it exists considerably another technological gap among countries. The countries with higher income such as Japan, Singapore, South Korea has succeeded in implementing ICT in all social and economic areas. The rest of the countries, including China, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, are far behind in information technology. Nevertheless, it s necessary for all nations, weather developed or developing, to keep on nurturing ICT development to be a part of connected world. The question is how a nation can successfully adopt ICT and benefit from all advantages at best. Unfortunately, there is no common guideline for all countries. Without identifying specific factors of each country and a lot of effort made by government, no country can achieve high ICT performance in the long run. The purpose of this paper is three-fold:To identify the characteristics and political options of a country, that would affect the success of ist ICT adoption. To identify clusters of nations upon the international ICT indices and GNI per capita To provide an overall guideline that incorporates these nations toward developing higher ICT indices.
This paper shows income level and social background can play very important roles in country s ICT development.

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T.L.Hoa Pham has focused in macroeconomics since 5 years in different areas like economic crisis, international trade. Especially in ICT theme she has done papers on effect of ICT on B2B and B2C. This paper of ICT development strategies is one of her works, which is dedicated as one of the best graduation-papers of the year 2013 University Wuppertal. Pro. Welfens, Chairman of this EIIW institute, was also inspired by this subject as well as the research result. T.L.Hoa Pham comes from Asia, studied both Business Administration and Economic Policy in Europe and works now in Online-trading between two regions as intermediate. She believes ICT plays the most important role in achieving any success of economy.

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