These cities have been ranked according to ICT maturity and development and all three of them were successful in meeting many social, economic and environmental targets by making extensive investments in ICT.

Singapore demonstrated innovation in e-health, and has pioneered traffic-congestion management. Stockholm is using ICT to enable research collaboration and knowledge transfer and Seoul leverages ICT to realise green high-tech initiatives.

Ericsson says cities exhibiting a high level of information and communications technology maturity can better manage issues such as environmental management, infrastructure, public security, healthcare quality and education.

This report encourages the low-ranking cities to provide digital access and ICT training for the underprivileged parts of their populations in order to reduce the digital divide.