Republic remains outside top 20 countries in e-readiness rankings

IRELAND has held its position in the Economist Intelligence Unit’s e-readiness rankings for this year, but it still remains outside the top 20.

A country’s “e-readiness” is a measure of its e-business environment that include factors that indicate how amenable a market is to internet-based opportunities.

Increasingly, it is also about how individuals and businesses consume digital goods and services, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit.