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- Doing business and competitiveness environment to evaluate countries for operations in the information and communication technologiesPublication . Vahanyan, Vahan; Nunes, Alcina; Gevorg, ArevshatyanInformation and Communication Technologies (ICT) are a fundamental part of a good business environment. In the past year Doing Business recorded 50 reforms establishing or improving online tools for regulatory processes (World Bank, 2016). Authors like Jerbashian and Kochanova (2016), for example, use Doing Business indicators to discover and examine how country-level regulations of business impact industry-level investments in ICT. Having as the main objective to understand how the business environment and competitiveness of an economy allows the introduction of companies in the ICT sector, it is proposed to develop a scientific work which implements business environmental scanning that allows strategic planning of activities based on analysis and comparison of broad indicators of opportunities and efficiency for various countries Environmental scanning is a process that systematically surveys and interprets relevant data to identify external opportunities and threats. An organization gathers information about the external world, its competitors and itself. The company should then respond to the information gathered by changing its strategies and plans when the need arises. For implementing an environmental scanning three well-known and worldwide databases are used: the Doing Business project, the Global Competitiveness Index and the ICT Development Index were used. Methodology allows to evaluate countries and compare them with each other in terms of investment attractiveness in the ICT sector. Results present a list of 40 countries that rank best among others regarding their business climate, competitiveness and operations of economic agents in the ICT sector as well as its sub-sectors: R&D, Production, and Services.