The Diversity Blog - SaaS, Cloud & Business Strategy » finland http://www.diversity.net.nz Commentary and Analysis for User-Centered Technology Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:40:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Finland and New Zealand, a comparison… http://www.diversity.net.nz/finland-and-new-zealand-a-comparison/2008/07/01/ http://www.diversity.net.nz/finland-and-new-zealand-a-comparison/2008/07/01/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:58:07 +0000 Ben Kepes http://diversity.net.nz/?p=1334 It would be an understatement to say that broadband in NZ is a topical issue.  Most of what I read isn’t objective or well thought out. I’ve said before the stated goal of the government to “get us into the top half of the OECD” is a nonsense without thinking about and supporting commercial enterprise to use these digital links and create wealth from it.

So I was really interested in this report from the ISCR. It’s really worth a read. It describes and compares the demographics and telecommunications infrastructure of the two nations and seeks to explain why Finland are 6th and NZ is 19th on the OECD lists.

It raises a bunch of questions to me,  how about you? I’m really keen to get the thoughts of our readership community about this. More on this subject here and here.

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