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Also, it helps that it's a tiny country (1.3 million citizens), so providing IT infrastructure is dirt cheap.
by mamon 9y ago
Also, it helps that it's a tiny country (1.3 million citizens), so providing IT infrastructure is dirt cheap.
- Retric 9y agoIt's the other way around. Remember, countries pay for R&D independent of the number of people in it, but they only get taxes relative to their population. So smaller countries need to spend a higher % of GDP on IT or deal with worse systems. What's going on is larger counties made the jump sooner so small countries have many examples to learn from.
- DrScump 9y agoSo smaller countries need to spend a higher % of GDP on IT That... or just import IT that was already developed elsewhere.
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- vilmosi 9y agoLet's be frank, R&D costs are not the problem here.
- Retric 9y agoNobody sells 100% of IT in a box for an arbitrary country, off the self, zero customization required. Now, they can import things like operating systems, routers, word processors, etc, but so can large counties. And even then localization may not work out of the box. Remember, things like local tax laws are not going to simply reflect some other country's rules 100% of the time.
- KekDemaga 9y agoI disagree A database for 1.3 million users? You can use off the shelf software. 350 million? You need a entirely different class of solution.
- hellofunk 9y agoA country's size cannot be overstated. I don't know about cost, but for mere agility, the smaller a country is, the more nimble it can be for all sorts of reform and progressive progress. Singapore and the Netherlands are both small countries that have managed to overhaul aspects of society without much barrier in years past. Germany is a big place, the U.S. much bigger. Estonia, tiny. You can do all sorts of things when you have just a few people it will affect.
- icebraining 9y agoFewer citizens also means smaller budget, how does that help?
- vilmosi 9y agoEconomies of scale would make the opposite true.