Tau Global Research is Unique and Powerful

Tau Global Research (TGR), Inc. was founded in 2011 in Metro Manila, Philippines to develop research that that captures the relative economic dynamism of nations, particularly in the developing world. The key fruit of this labor is The Tau Index, a ranking of the nations of the world in terms of the relative use of technology and its effect on societies and national economies.

The company founder, Roger Strukhoff, returned to the US as his primary residence in 2014. He has extended the work to encompass national efforts to build Digital Economies.

Tau Global Reports

Between 2011 and 2022, the research manifested itself in a series of private reports and consulting to government agencies and NGOs in several nations. From 2023 to the present, the research's primary outlet has been a series of reports created for the International Data Center Authority (IDCA).

A key IDCA report is called the EESG Digital Readiness Index of Nations, developed jointly by Roger Strukhoff and Bruce Taylor. This index measures national progress in four broad areas: Economy, Environment, Social, and Governance. The reports lends significant weight to the percentage of sustainable and renewable energy each nation consumes, as well as to CO2 and related emissions levels.

Unique, Powerful Approach

There are three key factors in TGR's process:

• First off, TGR's relative approach to all research activities differs sharply from traditional research that invariably strongly favors developed nations. Th TGR approach, by contrast, adjusts income and other factors to illustrate how well each nation is doing relative to its resources.
• Secondly, TGR measures the effect of each factor on all other factors, creating an enhanced, magnified “three-body problem” that reflects the real world. This is in contrast to the traditional approach of simply assigning arbitrary percentages to each factor.
• Thirdly, The process also measures progress against an optimal, benchmarked country named “Perfectland.”

This unique, powerful approach enables dynamic yet still relatively poor nations such as Chile, Georgia, Rwanda, Uruguay, and Vietnam to be featured among the Top 25 nations, thus joining the usual assortment of highly developed nations (e.g. Scandinavian and Baltic nations, the Netherlands, Switzerland, New Zealand).

Unique Results

TGR has created several other indexes, measures, and unique metrics from its extensive database of hundreds of factors, formulated across regions, income tiers, and dozens of other parameters. A few, selected examples illustrate this point:

• The Tau Index and EESG Digital Readiness Index are the only reports, as far as we know, with findings that do not correlate rigidly with the wealth of individual nations.
• Nations are ranked overall, regionally, and also within five income tiers (Developed Economies, Edge Nations, Emerging Economies, Frontier Markets, Least-Developed Countries).
• A tech-only index shows the economic torque tech is putting on a society, regardless of socioeconomic factors that may enhance or impede it.
• A “Goldilocks” Index shows which nations are developing too fast, which are too slow, and which are “just right.”
• A key metric that we believe is unique shows each nation's economic efficiency in emissions: it is measured by millions of USD of nominal GDP per tons of CO2 emissions. This approach, for example, shows a US inefficiency compared to the EU, but also gross inefficiencies of China and India when compared to the US.
• Another unique metric compares a nation's S&P bond rating with its EESG score. This enables insight into how overrated or underrated a nation's might be, and thus identifies “diamond in the rough” development and investment opportunities.
• Several correlations of specific measures of digital infrastructure (e.g., data centers, networking, mobile subscriptions, Internet access and bandwidth, submarine cable connectivity) illustrate wide disparities in some technologies and narrower disparities in others, and correlate this data to socioeconomic progress.