Today , a new Digital Competitiveness report from the European Comission has been released. A lot of things changed since the last report in 2005 (50 years ago in e-commerce time). Nevertheless the report can be handy for writing your internet strategy plan.

Some headlines:

56% of Europeans now regularly use the internet, 80% of them via a high-speed connection.

Europe is the world’s first truly mobile continent with more mobile subscribers than citizens (a take up rate of 119%)

Also interesting is that the so called ‘digital generation’ don’t want to pay to download or view online content.  I think both business models and the european strategy need to change. But I will get into this in another post.

See for more country rankings the: digital competiveness report 2009 – country rankings

There is also a powerpoint presentation from the press conference, so they call it, but it is just a  PDF file..can come in handy for your own presentations.

When you want more specific information, visit (direct link to the competiveness section) the website from the European Commission