Excellent IT facilities in Copenhagen

According to an analysis by The Economist Intelligence Unit, Denmark is a world leader when it comes to IT skills and facilities.

For its Future Watch 2007 research, the global meetings industry organisation, Meeting Professionals International (MPI), asked 1,500 meetings buyers about their expectations for 2007. The research shows that the standard of IT facilities and expertise has a decisive influence when meetings planners come to decide where to hold international meetings.

The majority of those questioned were sceptical that they could fulfil their expectations concerning, for instance, high-speed Internet connection in hotels and meeting venues, or the technology to enable the planning of meetings online. But all these facilities are found in Denmark and Copenhagen.

The IT branch has already acknowledged the fact that Copenhagen is the leader of the IT field. Microsoft has held three major international conferences within the last five years in Bella Center in Copenhagen, which is known throughout the IT branch for its state-of-the-art IT facilities. Bella Center has yet again been chosen to host a Microsoft conference this autumn, with over 3,000 decision makers from around the world expected to attend. As well as this, other players in the IT field, such as CISCO, Oracle and Eurostar, have held numerous major international events in the city during the last couple of years.

Denmark and Copenhagen's special status in this area is underlined by further international research, in which the country is invariably ranked first. The Economist Intelligence Unit's E-readiness analysis for 2004, 2005, and 2006, together with the World Economic Forum 2007, all named Denmark as the world's best country when it came to technological capability.