The Guide is targeted at communities in developing countries seeking to define a strategy to participate in the Networked World. The Guide will naturally yield unique results for each community. For instance, the issues that are most easily addressed at a municipal level may be more challenging at a national level, and vice versa. Click to assess your Readiness for the Networked World Likewise, the value of each category will vary for each community.
Available data are also of different character and quality in each community.
This will be reflected in the relative precision of each assessment. There is a great deal of variation, not only among countries, but also within them. This is particularly true with respect to comparative conditions between rural and urban areas. Just as communities are different from each other, leadership styles and goals in the development and implementation of ICT initiatives may arise from different places in each community. The composition of leadership groups using the Guide will therefore vary case by case.