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Title: Recent Developments in the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development


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Recent Developments in the Partnership on
Measuring ICT for Development
  • Torbjörn Fredriksson
  • (torbjorn.fredriksson_at_unctad.org)
  • Presentation at workshop on
  • " ICT Indicators and Capacity building for ICT
    measurement in the Arab Region" ,
  • Amman, Jordan, 25-26 September 2010

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Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development
  • Global initiative to improve internationally
    comparable ICT statistics to
  • coordinate activities among partners
  • harmonize standards and methodologies, and
  • provide technical assistance
  • Response to WSIS call to measure the information
    society
  • Launched in June 2004 (UNCTAD XI, Brazil)
  • Includes key stakeholders working on ICT
    statistics

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Partnership members
International level ITU OECD UNCTAD UN
DESA UNESCO Institute for Statistics World Bank
Regional level ECA ECLAC ESCAP ESCWA Eurostat
Steering Committee ITU, UNCTAD, UNECLAC
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Core list of ICT indicators
  • Endorsed by UN Statistical Commission in 2007
  • Revised and extended list at, Feb. 2010
  • Covering ICT infrastructure, ICT in households,
    ICT in businesses, ICT sector and trade, ICT in
    education
  • Definitions, standards, model survey questions
  • Continuously revised and extended
  • ESCWA translate into Arabic

Available at www.itu.int/ict
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Statistical manuals
  • UNCTAD manual ICT use in businesses, ICT sector
  • ITU manual ICT access in households, ICT use by
    individuals
  • UIS Manual Guide to Measuring Information and
    Communication Technologies (ICT) in Education

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Outside of OECD still large data gaps
  • ICT use in enterprises (UNCTAD database)
  • Only one out of 49 LDCs (Lesotho)
  • Only three African countries
  • Computer use by households (ITU database)
  • Only 7 out of 49 LDCs have reported such data
  • Policymakers need the data to
  • Design, implement, monitor and assess policies
  • Benchmark against other countries

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Capacity building on ICT statistics - 2009
  • UNCTAD and ITU training courses household and
    business ICT surveys
  • Delivery of trainings in Africa, Asia, and the
    Caribbean
  • Training of trainers (June 2009, Geneva)
  • ECLAC, ESCWA, ECA regional workshops

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Work in progress on indicators
  • E-government (led by UNECA)
  • Measuring impact (led by OECD)
  • Measuring WSIS Targets (launched during WSIS
    Forum 2010) (led by ITU)

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Partnership Task Group on Measuring WSIS targets
towards 2015
  • Launched during WSIS Forum 2010 (Geneva, May
    2010)
  • Develop monitoring framework for WSIS targets
    (including indicators, definitions, benchmarks
    and collection methodologies), to be disseminated
    widely
  • Track progress up to 2015 final report
  • Partnership members and external collaborators
  • Online forum http//groups.itu.int/wsis-targets
  • Final indicators to be presented at 8th World
    Telecommunication/ICT Indicators meeting, Geneva,
    24-26 November 2010

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International Seminar on ICT StatisticsSeoul,
19-21 July 2010
  • UNSD and KOSTAT, ITU and UNCTAD,
  • In cooperation with Partnership on Measuring ICT
    for Development
  • Hosted by Government of the Rep. of Korea
  • See http//unstats.un.org/unsd/ict/
  • Participation from Arab countries
  • Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia,
    Tunisia, UAE

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Korea seminar topics for discussion
  • ICT statistics and policy making
  • Measuring information society and future
    strategies The case of Korea
  • Measuring the Information Society
  • New developments in mobile and broadband
    communication technology
  • Measuring household ICT access and individual use
  • Measurement issues related to households ICT
    surveys

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Korea seminar topics for discussion (2)
  • Measuring the Information Economy
  • Measuring the evolving ICT sector
  • Measuring ICT use by businesses
  • Measurement issues related to business surveys of
    ICT use
  • The Future of ICT statistics
  • Emerging areas of ICT statistics (e.g.
    e-government, online security)
  • Regional approaches to enhancing ICT data
    availability
  • Capacity building needs and tools

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For more informationhttp//measuring-ict.unctad.
orghttp//www.itu.int/icthttp//unstats.un.org/
unsd/ict/default.htm
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