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   Partnership on measuring ICT for Development

To coordinate work in ICT indicators, a Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development was established alongside WSIS (uniting ECA, ECLAC, ESCAP, ESCWA, Eurostat, ITU, OECD, UNCTAD, UIS, UN ICT Task Force and the World Bank). The Partnership aims to track the development of the Information Society, develop a global database and build capacity in National Statistical Offices to measure ICTs, in order to improve the availability of comparable data. According to its Project Document, the Partnership pursues three objectives:

Determine a core set of ICT indicators: These indicators would be harmonized and agreed upon by the international community, so as to become the basis for an internationally agreed upon ICT database.

Enhance the capacity of developing countries to collect and analyze this set of indicators: The Partnership will support national statistical offices in developing countries with capacity building to develop programmes for the collection of ICT indicators and statistics.

Develop an international ICT database: The Partnership will develop a database on international ICT indicators and make it available on the internet.

Partnership webpage


  Members of the Partnership


  Publications
  

Being a member of the Partnership and the UN specialized agency for telecommunications, ITU has a mandate for the collection, compilation and dissemination of statistics in its field as part of its contributions to the project. In February 2005, the Partnership adopted a set of measurable ‘core’ ICT indicators agreed as best mapping the development of the Information Society at a WSIS Thematic Meeting on Measuring the Information Society, held in Geneva. 

At this meeting, ITU and the Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity and Promotion (KADO) announced that they were working on a Digital Opportunity Index, as part of their joint initiative for “Building Digital Bridges”. The Digital Opportunity Index (DOI) uses the core indicators  as its starting basis, since they have been agreed by the international community as the most important indicators for measuring the Information Society. The partnership agreed that the DOI would be further discussed in the preparatory process for the Tunis phase of WSIS.

In March 2005, the Partnership presented the list of core indicators and a report on the progress it had made so far to the 36th session of the United Nations Statistical Commission, in New York.

In consultation with the Partnership, a straw-man’ document for a possible methodology was developed and presented at the WSIS Thematic Meeting on Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships for Bridging the Digital Divide held in Seoul on 23-24 June 2005. It outlines a methodology for the DOI, and analyses 2003 data for 40 economies.


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