In Korea more than 70 percent of households (about 10 million) subscribe to high-speed Internet services, and in November 2002 more than 60 percent of the country’s 43 million residents used the Internet on a regular basis. Almost all private suppliers have high-speed Internet access.

Now compare this to Pakistan’s 1 million regular dialup internet users in 2002. What good is the e-procurement system be if less than 1% of the pop have access to it?

I think ramping up the infrastructure is where most of the challenge and opportunity is. As a matter of fact, the e-ready survey gave the most weight net infrastructure when ranking the countries.