Benchmark of fifth-generation collaborative digital regulation Authors Foreword Table of contents List of figures and tables Executive summary 1. Introduction 2. Research on regulatory and policy indices in ICT and the digital economy 2.1 Indices measuring trade barriers in telecommunication services 2.2 Indices measuring the development of telecommunications regulatory and policy frameworks 2.3 Indices measuring the development of regulatory and policy frameworks applied to the digital economy 2.4 Focus on policy, regulation, and governance metrics 3. The current industry context requires a new regulatory and policy metric 3.1 The transition to a digital economy 3.2 The need of a digital policy agenda 3.3 The need for measuring cross-sector collaboration 4. The G5 Benchmark 4.1 Benchmark design 4.2 Benchmark construction methodology 4.3 Test of benchmark robustness 4.3.1 Benchmark framework 4.3.2 Data availability and missing values 4.3.3 Normalization and weighting 4.3.4 Statistical coherence 4.3.5 Impact of modelling assumptions 4.3.6 Statistical robustness assessment 5. Benchmark results and interpretation 5.1 A worldwide perspective 5.2 A view from the regions 5.2.1 Africa region 5.2.2 Americas region 5.2.3 Arab States region 5.2.4 Asia-Pacific region 5.2.5 Commonwealth of Independent States region 5.2.6 Europe region 5.2.7 Regional conclusions 6. Analysis of the correlation between the G5 Benchmark and established international indices 6.1 Descriptive analysis 6.2 Econometric analysis 6.3 Case study: Singapore 6.4 Validation of the results of the G5 Benchmark 7. Implications and a way forward Bibliography Annex A: List of members of the review board Annex B: Detailed methodology of the G5 Benchmark