Acts Green evaluates the quality of a country’s air and drinking water.

Actual Diversity measures the concentration of various ethnic groups within a country and the gender gap in its workforce.

Fundamental Freedoms evaluates the degree to which a country grants its citizens certain civil and political liberties.

Invests in Skilled Workforce evaluates a country’s population on the basis of educational attainment, availability of high-skilled workers, and the share of ICT-related advanced degrees.

Promotes Resilience & Digital Transparency evaluates the extent to which a country’s government provides services on the internet, enabling it to withstand shocks.

Encourages Telehealth evaluates the extent to which a country permits care for its population by Telemedicine.

Allows Cross-Border Data Flows evaluates the extent to which a country permits the flow of data without onerous and/or arbitrary requirements that create hindrances for end users or operators of online systems including, but not limited to, cloud storage and streaming media.

Friendly to Digital Platforms evaluates to the degree to which a country enables people to use Web 2.0 technologies such as social media.

Legal Climate evaluates the health and fairness of a country’s judicial institutions.

Encourages Broadband measures a country’s number of mobile broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, number of fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants and the mean download speeds of its internet connections.

Encourages Global Tech Trade considers five factors: a country’s participation in the International Trade Agreement of 1997; a country’s participation in the International Trade Agreement of 2015; the share of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) as a percentage of a country’s total exports and as a percentage of total imports.

R&D Friendly measures a country’s gross expenditure on research and development, as a percentage of its GDP, using data from the WIPO 2023 Global Innovation Index.

Startup & Small Business Friendly evaluates how easy it is to start a new business in a country.

Tax Friendly evaluates the competitiveness of a country’s tax system, based on its top federal corporate tax rate, and its top individual marginal tax rate.

Blockchain Friendly evaluates the degree to which a country allows people to use Web 3.0 technologies without onerous requirements or unnecessary hindrances.