BBC: Denmark tops e-business rankings

A new Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) study taps Denmark as the most business friendly e-commerce zone, with Britain and other Scandinavian nations making the list before the U.S., at number six. The study emphasized business-to-government communications and integration, as well as infrastructure for new forms of Internet, like wireless and mobile.

The EIU, a division of the late Viscount Cowdray's British media empire Pearson Holdings, is normally a libertarian group extolling the benefits of private investment outside the involvement of government. They must feel strongly that these technology foundations and government influences will have positive effects in the next few years on the relative share of e-commerce enjoyed by those countries.