Tech Readiness Index

The Tech Readiness Index panel (internal id tech-readiness) ranks countries by a composite tech-readiness score — the kind of comparative view you want when sizing up "which markets are structurally well-positioned on tech infrastructure, talent, and adoption?"

What the panel shows

A ranked list of countries with flag, ISO-3 code, and score. Flag emojis come from a built-in map of ~60 ISO-3 codes in src/components/TechReadinessPanel.ts:6; countries outside that list still appear in the ranking but without a flag.

The panel holds the full TechReadinessScore[] in memory and re-renders on refresh. A count badge in the panel header shows how many countries are in the ranking (showCount: true).

Panel id is tech-readiness; canonical component is src/components/TechReadinessPanel.ts. Title resolves from i18n (panels.techReadiness).

How you reach it

• Cmd+K: type tech readiness or tech index.
• Availability by variant: registered and enabled by default in the full/geopolitical (priority: 2) and tech (priority: 1) variants. Not present in the finance, commodity, or happy variants. Source: 'tech-readiness' in FULL_PANELS (:105) and TECH_PANELS (:276) of src/config/panels.ts.

Data sources

• getTechReadinessRankings() in @/services/economic — reads bootstrap-hydrated techReadiness data when available, then falls back to GET /api/bootstrap?keys=techReadiness.
• The data is precomputed by the World Bank indicator seed pipeline; the frontend does not call the World Bank API directly.

Refresh cadence

6 hours in-panel (REFRESH_INTERVAL = 6 * 60 * 60 * 1000 in src/components/TechReadinessPanel.ts:26). The panel skips refetch if the ranking is non-empty and less than 6 hours old; explicit refresh is re-triggered after the interval.

Tier & gating

Free. No premium flag in either variant registration. The bootstrap hydration/fallback path is public.

API reference

• Platform endpoints — covers /api/bootstrap, including keyed hydration such as techReadiness.