In Vientiane Capital, totally, 85 IT service providers and 315 IT service recipients from different
industry sectors were approached by the survey team during the period from 1st November 2012 to
30th December 2012. The outcome was that 35 and 150 respondents replied to the questionnaire
from provider side and recipient side respectively. Table 1 shows how the respondents have
changed over the past four years.