After a decade internet now reaches the Asian region as well as African countries intensively
while USA Canada and Europe are focusing newer inventions. Within the Asian region it exists
considerably another technological gap among countries. The countries with higher income such
as Japan Singapore South Korea has succeeded in implementing ICT in all social and economic
areas. The rest of the countries including China Malaysia Thailand Indonesia Philippines
Vietnam Laos Cambodia are far behind in information technology. Nevertheless it s necessary
for all nations weather developed or developing to keep on nurturing ICT development to be a
part of connected world. The question is how a nation can successfully adopt ICT and benefit
from all advantages at best. Unfortunately there is no common guideline for all countries.
Without identifying specific factors of each country and a lot of effort made by government no
country can achieve high ICT performance in the long run. The purpose of this paper is
three-fold:To identify the characteristics and political options of a country that would
affect the success of ist ICT adoption. To identify clusters of nations upon the international
ICT indices and GNI per capita To provide an overall guideline that incorporates these nations
toward developing higher ICT indices. This paper shows income level and social background can
play very important roles in country s ICT development.
