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Geneva,
Switzerland, Room IX, ILO Headquarters, 17 May 2011, 14h00-18h00
Background
The session provided a brief overview of recent activities of the
Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development,
including a progress report on e-government indicators. It also looked
at the emerging issues to be included in its work agenda to advance ICT
measurement.
The session then focused on the measurement of the ICT-producing
sector and its importance for policy analysis. Following an introduction
by UNCTAD, the OECD presented progress made in its work on ICT sector
statistics. The Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communication (Orbicom)
presented the results of its research and training program entitled
“Statistical Compilation of the ICT Sector and Policy Analysis”
involving researchers and the statistical offices of five developing
countries: Brazil, Cameroon, Egypt, India and Malaysia. Participants
engaged in an active discussion with the panelists on the role of these
statistics in policy making, and what lessons could be drawn with the
aim to further develop the ICT sector in particular and national
economies in general.
Program
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14:00-14:30 |
Launch of new Partnership publication: "Measuring the WSIS
targets - A statistical framework" |
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14:45-15:15 |
Chair: Partner (Claude Akpabie, UIS)
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Overview of recent Partnership activities - advancing
the ICT measurement agenda (Susan Teltscher, ITU)
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Progress report on e-government indicators (Makane Faye,
ECA)
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15:15-16:00 |
Featured topic: Measuring the ICT producing sector
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Partnership intro (Torbjörn Fredriksson, UNCTAD)
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Measuring the ICT sector in the OECD countries (OECD)
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Introduction to the Orbicom project on measuring the ICT
sector (Pierre Giguère, Orbicom)
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Rosa Porcaro, Brazil
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16:00-16:15 |
Discussion |
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16:15-16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30-17:30 |
Chair: Albrecht Wirthmann, EUROSTAT Measuring the
ICT producing sector (cont.)
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Olivier Nana Nzepa, Cameroon
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Nagwa El-Shenawi, Egypt
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Payal Malik, India
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Ramasamy Ramachandran, Malaysia
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Mark Uhrbach, Synthesis report, Orbicom
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17:30–17:50 |
Discussion (moderated by George Sciadas, Orbicom) |
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17:50–18:00 |
Concluding remarks (by Steering Committee members) |
Documents and presentations
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Progress in Measuring ICT for
Development, Susan Teltscher, ITU (pdf format)
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Measuring the ICT Sector - An
introduction, Torbjörn
Fredriksson, UNCTAD (pdf format)
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ICT sector statistics - Measurement
issues, Indicators and Policy relevance,
Pierre Montagnier, OECD
(pdf format)
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Presentation
of country case studies Brazil, Cameroon, Egypt, India, Malaysia (pdf
format)
Summary
For more information about WSIS Forum 2011, see
www.wsis.org/forum. |
