The Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development is made up of a total of 13 partner organizations. In January 2013, the United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace (UNU-ISP), an international community of scholars engaged in research, capacity development and dissemination of knowledge became the latest organization to join. In particular, the UNU-ISP will contribute to the Partnership’s work in the area of e-waste measurement.

 

​	Intern​​ational Telecommunication Union (ITU)​		UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
	​ Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD)	​	​ UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
​	​United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)		​UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)
​	​United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics	​	​UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA)
​	​United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA)	​	​ EUROSTAT
​	​The World Bank		​UNEP Secretariat of the Basel Convention (SBC)
​	United Nations University Institute for Sustainability and Peace	​ ​

ITU is an active member of the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development and together with UNCTAD and ECLAC, one of the three members of its Steering Committee.

 

From the core list of indicators identified by the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development, ITU is responsible for collecting the infrastructure and access indicators (A1-A12) as well as the indicators on access to and use of ICTs by households and individuals (HH1-HH13).

 

To improve data availability and comparability, ITU works closely with its Member States, particularly the Ministries in charge of telecommunication, regulatory agencies, and national statistical offices. ITU provides technical assistance to enhance the capacity of national statistical offices.

 

The Partnership's work is closely related to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), which called upon countries and international organisations to develop appropriate indicators and produce official statistics to monitor the Information Society and the WSIS Tunis Agenda for the Information Society makes reference to the Partnership. Through its Task Group on Measuring the WSIS Targets, the Partnership is actively involved in the WSIS+10 review process: In December 2012, it sent out the Meta-data Questionnaire on the WSIS Targets Indicators (excel) to national WSIS focal points. The aim of this questionnaire, which was sent out by the UN Regional Commissions (ECA, ECLAC, ESCWA, ESCAP), the OECD and the European Commission, is to collect information/metadata on data availability for the WSIS targets indicators as defined by the Measuring the Measuring the WSIS Targets - A statistical framework document. This is in preparation for the data collection that will be conducted in 2013 to collect the data for each of the indicators listed in this questionnaire, and to prepare a final WSIS+10 review report.