Big Data for Measuring the Information Society

ITU Big Data Project

The ITU project 'Big Data for Measuring the Information Society' is exploring ways of using big data from the ICT industry to improve and complement existing statistics and methodologies to measure the information society.

By drawing lessons from the experiences of pilot countries, the project will demonstrate how big data can be used for ICT measurement. Ultimately, the project aims to enhance the quality and timeliness of ICT statistics in order to improve the evidence base for decision-making of ICT policy makers and investors.

ITU Project Pilot Countries

Countries participating in the ITU project are:

We invite other countries interested in participating in the project to contact the ITU at: indicators@itu.int

Publications

Presentations

'Unlocking the Potential of Mobile Phone Data for Official Statistics: A Practical Guidance for National Statistical Offices', Side Event at the 56th Session of the United Nations Statistical Commission
'Mobile Phone Data (MPD): From methods to implementation' (pdf), presented at WTIS-24
'Preparing the ground: Mobile phone data for official statistics' (pdf), presented at WTIS-23
'ITU pilot project Big Data for Measuring the Information Society' (pdf), presented at WTIS-17
'Big Data for Measuring the Information Society' (pdf), presented at WTIS-17
'Pilot Study on Big Data: Philippines' (pdf), presented at WTIS-17
'Pilot Project - Big Data for Measuring the Information Society - Colombia' (pdf), presented at WTIS-17
'Big Data for Measuring the Information Society' (pdf), presented at the WTIS-16
'The role of big data for ICT monitoring and for development' (pdf), Chapter 5 of the MISR 2014
'The Internet of Things: data for development' (pdf), Chapter 5 of the MISR 2015
'Big data for monitoring the information society', session at the WTIS-16
'Big data and the ICT industry: building effective public-private partnerships', session at the WTIS-15
'Big Data for development and the future of ICT measurement', session at the WTIS-14
'Big data in the telecommunications industry', session at the WTIS-13

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