K. Osborne, OFTEL, UK
I. Briksne, Statistics Latvia
F.C. Rey, INE, Spain
S. Mensah, Togo Telecom
Y. Kaneko, MPHPT, Japan
A. Yu, CSD, Hong Kong
Millennium
Development Goals/World Summit of the Information Society (8)
L. Deloumeaux and D. Stukel, UNESCO Institute for
Statistics
E. Magpantay, ITU
T. Reynolds and T. Kelly, ITU
9:30
Opening
R. Blois,
Deputy Secretary-General, ITU
K. Mirsky,
Deputy Director, BDT
P.G. Touré,
Acting Chief, BDT/PSF
10:00
Overview
10:30
Break
Break
Break
11:00
ITU data processing
(1)
E. Magpantay, ITU
V. Gray, ITU
Gender (5)
N. Hafkin, Knowledge Working
M. Minges, ITU
Measuring the
Digital Divide (9)
W. McHenry, University of Akron, USA
G. Sciadas, Statistics Canada
P. Biggs, UNCTAD
12:00
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
14:00
Coordination (2)
G. Eele and Anat Lewin, World Bank
M. Lumio, Eurostat
M. Schaaper. OECD
Telecom Indicator
Handbook (6)
M. Minges, ITU
14:30
Conclusions
15:30
Break
Break
Break
16:00
Mobile indicators
(3)
T. Reynolds and T. Kelly, ITU
Research and
analysis (7)
H. Ertl, Statistics Canada
C. Milne, Antelope, UK
I. Stanev, ITC, Bulgaria
17:30
Informal meeting on
possible indicators event for WSIS
An
overview of ITU’s collection, processing, analysis and dissemination of
telecommunication / ICT statistics.
Cooperation
with other international and regional agencies involved in telecommunication
/ ICT statistics. The collection, processing and dissemination of
telecommunication / ICT statistics by those organizations. Which statistics
they consider important and why. Their statistical publications.
Mobile
communications has emerged as the leading form of supplying telephone access
with more mobile than fixed-line telephone subscribers in the world. What
are trends in mobile communications, what are the important mobile
communications statistics to collect, is a combined teledensity indicator
analytically useful, etc. Also a presentation of ITU’s mobile index.
It
is the responsibility of national telecommunication/ICT government bodies
and statistical offices to collect, process and disseminate
telecommunication/ICT statistics. This session will look at best practice
such as national regulatory authorities compiling statistics as well as
national statistical offices collecting data at a household level. It will
also provide guidelines for how national data can be collected, compiled and
disseminated. What legal basis they depend on. What kinds of statistics and
publications. What kind of collaboration between the two. Who is best placed
to collect national telecommunication / ICT statistics.
Why
is differentiating telecommunication / ICT statistics by gender important?
Which gender statistics are important in telecommunication / ICT? What is
the current state of gender disaggregated statistics for telecommunication /
ICT and what are the challenges in collecting these types of statistics?
This
session covers identifying the most important telecommunication / ICT
statistics to collect. It will also look at issues related to development of
community access indicators.
Telecommunication
/ ICT statistics are critical for industry analysis. This session will
present some recent research using telecommunication / ICT statistics.
The
United Nations community has adopted a series of development targets backed
by measurable indicators. These include three specific indicators to track
the availability of telecommunication/ICT. The WSIS, to be held in 2003,
will among other things, examine how telecommunication/ICT can be used as a
development tool. Telecommunication/ICT improve well being, help eradicate
poverty, illiteracy, etc. by providing electronic access to health,
education and critical information. Discussion will focus on the choice of
the telecommunication/ICT indicators and what kinds of indicators can be
used to measure the impact of telecommunication/ICT on human development.
The Digital Divide—unequal access to ICTs—has emerged as a high level issue
in most countries. This session will look at research in measuring and comparing
the digital divide across nations.
