The considerations that comprise the first release of the index focuses on are: regulatory conditions; international connectivity; data protection policy; broadband quality; government prioritization; power grid quality; Internet filtering; business efficiency index; global risk; and ICT development.

Both South Korea and Singapore occupy the third place in the index. According to the association, South Korea has an ambitious cloud strategy, with the government investing US$500 million to incubate the cloud for both public and private sector cloud initiatives, and raising their investment to US$2billion by 2014.