南亚是世界上最不发达的地区之一,其信息化总体水平不高。该地区的三个大国——印度、巴基斯坦、孟加拉的信息化水平排在全球110位之后,亟须改善信息化基础设施,促进信息技术在经济社会各领域的应用。但印度的信息服务外包产业十分发达,是全球数字经济大国之一;巴基斯坦和孟加拉的信息服务外包产业发展亦较快;其余国家中,斯里兰卡信息社会发展相对较快,在信息经济和电子政务方面表现突出;尼泊尔虽然信息化在初步发展阶段,但基础设施建设、信息经济、信息社会、政府信息化等发展比较均衡;不丹虽然人口很少,但该国十分重视信息化建设;马尔代夫虽然属于高收入国家,但由于国土面积很小,经济结构单一,其信息化建设只需支撑主要产业的需求即可。近年来中国与南亚国家的信息化合作较多,包括我国与孟加拉和巴基斯坦在信息化基础设施领域的合作,阿里巴巴与印度电商企业之间的经济合作,以及云南、西藏等边境省份与印度、斯里兰卡、尼泊尔之间的合作。
<<South Asia is one of the less developed areas in the world where the general informatizationlevel iremainslow.Theinformatization level of three great powers in this area - India,Pakistan,and Bangladesh are ranked below 110around the world.The information infrastructure has to be improved urgently in order to facilitate the application of information technologies in various economic and social sectors.However,the information service outsourcing industry in India is advanced which make it one of the powerful digital economy in the world.On the other hand,the information service outsourcing in Pakistan and Bangladesh has been developing in a high speed too;As for other countries,the information society has been making relatively rapid development in Sri Lanka,and it shows prominent performance in information economy and e-government affairs;even though Nepal is still at a very primitive stage of informatization,but Nepal attaches great significance to informatizatio;The economic development of Afghanistan has been seriously hampered by its instability and turmoil,which result in a backward information society in this country;Even though Maldives is a high-income country,the information construction is only capable of supporting the needs of the main industries due to its small territory and single economic structure.In recent years,China has had many cooperation projects with South Asian countries in ICTs,including the cooperation between China,Bangladesh and Pakistan in information and newwork infrastructure,the economic cooperation between Alibaba and Indian e-commerce enterprises,as well as the cooperation between Chinese border provinces such as Yunnan and Tibet and countries such as India,Sri Lanka and Nepal.
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