An anonymous reader writes “A new report today has ranked the Top 10 ‘Internet Cities’ around the globe, based on a set of five criteria: connection speed, availability of citywide WiFi, openness to innovation, support of public data, and security/data privacy. One might expect high-tech cities like San Francisco and Tel Aviv to appear on a list of ‘Internet Cities,’ but they don’t. Indeed, no Middle Eastern cities appear here at all, and — due, largely, to the United States’ poor Internet speeds — the only US city to make this ranking is Seattle.”… An anonymous reader writes “A new report today has ranked the Top 10 ‘Internet Cities’ around the globe, based on a set of five criteria: connection speed, availability of citywide WiFi, openness to innovation, support of public data, and security/data privacy. One might expect high-tech cities like San Francisco and Tel Aviv to appear on a list of ‘Internet Cities,’ but they don’t. Indeed, no Middle Eastern cities appear here at all, and — due, largely, to the United States’ poor Internet speeds — the only US city to make this ranking is Seattle.”

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