Released by ictQATAR on May 17, 2009, Qatar's ICT Landscape 2009, is the
first country-wide, survey-based ICT study which provides a good understanding of where Qatar stands today compared to developing and developed countries in terms of ICT adoption by all sectors of the society, including residents, government, and the business community. It also looks at the education, health, and tourism sectors, as well as the ICT job market.

Over the past several years, Qatar's people, institutions, and government have made steady progress in adopting ICT into daily life. The adoption of ICT in Qatar over the past few years puts the country among the best three in the Arab world in terms of combined performance in basic ICT indicators such as the numbers of computer users, Internet users, mobile telephone and broadband Internet subscribers.

Qatar's ICT Landscape 2009 also shows that Qatar's three major stakeholders - government, businesses, and residents - are not on the same level of ICT adoption. Residents (excluding the transient labor population) performed better in overall ICT indicators than government and business; businesses have the most progress to make.

The three main pillars that support widespread ICT adoption - availability and quality of ICT infrastructure and services and ICT skilled users show that lack of ICT skills, especially in businesses, is the strongest barrier to widespread ICT adoption.

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