Top digital cities are in Asia

Super blogger Om Malik directs us to an interesting piece in the Melbourne Age. It ranks the top 10 digital cities in the world and Asia comes out strongly, bagging 6 of the top 10 spots:

1. Seoul

2. Singapore

3. Tokyo

4. Hong Kong

5. Stockholm

6. San Francisco and Silicon Valley

7. Tallinn

8 New York

9. Beijing

10. New Songdo City

The writer notes "Asian cities scored well on broadband speed and availability, mainly because they have concentrated populations in a small land area. Seoul's excellent wireless coverage, along with government programs such as Seoul Digital City, gave the city top billing".

And, if you don't know where New Songdo City is (I didn't), check out their website here. It's a while since I've come across a new development that touts the fact that it is located on the site of a major military encounter but, New Songdo's developers tell us that they are right where Gen. MacArthur lead the famous Incheon landings in 1950.