Capacity-building%20Workshop%20on%20Information%20Society%20Measurements:%20Core%20Indicators,%20Statistics,%20and%20Data%20Collection%207-10%20June%202005%20UN%20House,%20Beirut,%20Lebanon

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Capacity-building Workshop on Information Society
Measurements Core Indicators, Statistics, and
Data Collection7-10 June 2005UN House, Beirut,
Lebanon

• ITU World Telecommunication IndicatorsData
  Collection and Dissemination

• Vanessa.Gray_at_itu.int
• Market, Economics and Finance Unit (MEF)
• Telecommunication Development Bureau

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Helping the world to communicate

• The ITU is the UN-specialized agency for
  telecommunications where governments and the
  private sector coordinate global telecom networks
  and services
• Founded in 1865
• 189 Member States and over 700 private sector
  members

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Overview

• ITUs role and mandate
• ITUs World Telecommunication Indicators
• How?
• What?
• Why?
• Challenges
• Dissemination - demand for ITU data
• Analysis/Reports
• Arab States Trends and Markets
• Conclusions

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ITU mandate and role

• As a United Nations agency, the ITU has an
  obligation to produce statistics covering its
  sector. This is in line with other specialized
  agencies that publish statistics covering their
  respective field of operations. This forms part
  of the global statistical system of the UN. 
• Inside ITU, Resolution No. 8 (Istanbul, 2002)
  calls on the Director of the BDT to survey
  countries and produce world and regional reports,
  in particular onworld telecommunication
  developments.

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Market Economics and Finance Unit

• Information sharing tracking the global
  diffusion of Information and Communication
  Technologies (ICT)
• Telecom/ICT Data collection and dissemination
• Analysis
• International cooperation
• The ITU, through its Indicators, is the main
  source of internationally comparable data on
  ICT/telecommunications

Mobile overtakes fixed! Telephone subscribers,
world, millions
In the Arab States, mobile overtook fixed in
2002, when the number of mobile subscribers grew
to over 25 million (compared to just under 24
million fixed lines)
Source ITU
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Data collection

• HOW?
• Two Telecommunication Indicator Questionnaires
  per year addressed to government agencies
  responsible from ICT/telecom or operator
• Online research
• Annual reports

• WHAT?
• Telephone network
• Mobile services
• Traffic/Tariff
• Quality of Service/Staff
• Revenues Investment
• Broadcasting
• Information Technology
• PCs
• Internet subscribers/users
• Broadband/bandwidth

Data is entered into the World Telecommunication
Indicators Database
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Data storage

• Annual numerical data (indicators)
• Industry/country operators information (contact
  details, operators functions, short description,
  etc.)
• Updated regularly to cope with the fast changing
  telecom/ICT environment
• New indicators added
• World Telecommunication Indicators Workshop
  (February 2005)

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Challenges
Not every country returns/answers the
questionnaire and reply rates are higher for
short questionnaires!
11 out of 22 of the Arab States replied to the
2005 Short Questionnaire
Source ITU World Telecommunication Indicators
database
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more challenges
Not every country (that replies) answers every
question!
Source ITU World Telecommunication Indicators
database
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and more challenges

• More work to aggregate operators data since
  liberalization and privatization
• More operators for different services
• Operators data or annual reports sometimes not
  made available
• Some information collected does not meet the ITU
  definition and data are not always
  internationally comparable

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and the statistical divide (2002/2003)
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Data dissemination

• Yearbook of Statistics
• Published annually for almost 3 decades
• Covers 80 ICT/telecom indicators for almost 200
  economies
• World Telecommunication Indicators Database
• Time series data for the years 1960, 1965, 1970
  and annually from 1975-2003
• Covers 80 ICT/telecom indicators for almost 200
  economies

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Data dissemination the CD-ROM
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Data dissemination other forms

• Free statistics published in our ICT website for
  basic indicators, cellular subscribers, and
  information technology (http//www.itu.int/ITU-D/i
  ct/statistics/)
• Requests made by users either by phone, fax, or
  email

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Analysis

• World Telecommunication Development Report
• Regional Reports on ICT/telecom developments
• Case Studies (www.itu.int/ict/cs)

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WTDR 2003

• World Telecommunication Development Report
• Contains overview of world telecom indicators
• Highlights topics relevant to global issues
• Last released December 2003 during WSIS (Geneva)
• Topic Measuring the information society
• Includes the first release of Digital Access
  Index (DAI)

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Digital Access Index

• The DAI ranks 178 economies according to their
  ability to access ICTs
• Based on 5 categories and 8 indicators
• Classifies economies into high, upper, medium,
  low

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Digital Access Index Ranking
Rank Economy Infra- structure Afford- ability Know- ledge Quality Usage DAI
1 Sweden 0.94 0.99 0.99 0.64 0.67 0.847
2 Denmark 0.89 0.99 0.99 0.66 0.60 0.828
3 Iceland 0.89 0.99 0.96 0.50 0.76 0.820
4 Korea (Rep.) 0.74 0.99 0.96 0.74 0.65 0.817
5 Norway 0.84 0.99 0.99 0.55 0.59 0.793
6 Netherlands 0.78 0.99 0.99 0.61 0.60 0.792
34 United Arab Emirates 0.66 0.99 0.73 0.39 0.43 0.64
48 Qatar 0.46 0.99 0.81 0.37 0.14 0.55
60 Kuwait 0.43 0.98 0.73 0.28 0.12 0.51
67 Lebanon 0.28 0.89 0.83 0.29 0.14 0.48
80 Jordan 0.22 0.82 0.86 0.27 0.07 0.45
82 Saudi Arabia 0.23 0.95 0.71 0.26 0.07 0.44
Source ITU World Telecommunication Indicators
database Note DAI ranks a total of 178
economies.
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Regional Reports

• Specifically prepared for regional Telecom events
• Contains 3 parts analytical overview, regional
  statistics, directory of telecommunication
  operators
• Africa Telecom Indicators 2004 released during
  Telecom Africa 2004
• Latest is Asia Telecom Indicators 2004 released
  September 2004

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The Arab States market structure 2003
Source ITU World Telecommunication Regulatory
Database
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Comparing evolution of fixed teledensity,
1993-2003
Source ITU World Telecommunication Indicators
database
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Comparing mobile growth rates, by region,
1993-2003
Source ITU World Telecommunication Indicators
database
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Internet user penetration, by region, 2003
Source ITU World Telecommunication Indicators
database
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DSL penetration, Arab Region, 2003
Source ITU World Telecommunication Indicators
database Note Data on Lebanon refer to cable
modem access
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Other activitiesInternational cooperation
coordination

• The Millennium Development Goals ITU tracks
  target 18 of the MDGs
• Main telephone lines cellular subscribers, PC
  penetration , Internet users (for UN MDG
  database)
• Prepares story-lines for UN Secretary Generals
  report on MDG
• Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development
• Conferences/workshops/meetings
• Case Studies

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http//www.itu.int/ict
http//www.itu.int/ict
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• Thank you for your attention!