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Wednesday, 24 November 2010 |
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08.00 –
09.30 |
Delegates
registration |
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09.30
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Opening
session and keynotes
The opening
session will provide an overview of the meeting agenda and introduce the
Chair, Ms Lamia Chaffai Sghaier, Secretary of State for
information, Internet and free software, Ministry of Communication
Technologies, Tunisia.
Keynote speakers from government, industry and academia will
highlight recent ICT developments and the need for internationally
comparable indicators.
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Mr Mario Maniewicz, BDT/ITU
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Mr Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid, Director,
BDT/ITU
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Ms. Jirawan Boonperm, Permanent Secretary,
MICT, Thailand
(statement delivered by Sureerat Santipaporn, Chief, ICT Statistics,
National Statistical Office)
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Mr Raul Katz, Columbia Business School
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Mr Ilkka Lakaniemi, Nokia Corporation
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Ms Susan Teltscher, ITU/BDT
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11.00 – 11.15 |
Coffee break
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11.15
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Session 1:
Measuring ICT
impact – joint ITU/OECD/EU session
Information and communication technologies are transforming the world in
multiple ways, and having a growing impact across all sectors of the
economy. ICTs are allowing more people to access and share information
in innovative ways. They reduce costs, increase businesses’ and
governments’ productivity, and are an important foundation for
innovation and development. While the benefits of ICTs are largely
recognized, ICT impact measurement is still in its early stages. There
is a growing demand for internationally comparable indicators to define
quantifiable measures for analyzing the impact of ICTs.
Session (1), which is organized jointly by ITU, OECD and the EU, will
provide participants with an overview of progress on measuring ICT
impact. It will point to methodological challenges and discuss
measurement frameworks and indicators. Besides presenting recent
quantitative studies on measuring the economic impact of ICTs, the
session will discuss different types of impact measurement, including
productivity growth and ICTs and intangibles. A key objective of this
session is to inform policy makers and producer of ICT statistics about
indicators needed to measure impact, and about different types of
analysis that can be produced.
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12.30 –
14.30
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Lunch break |
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14.30
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Session 2: Measuring ICT impact -
joint ITU/OECD/EU
session
(continued)
A continuation
of session (1), this session (2) will focus on the economic impact of
specific ICTs, in particular mobile telephony and broadband. It will
discuss evidence of the impact of broadband on GDP, productivity and
employment and present research results on the impact of mobile
telephony in developing countries.
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16.00
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Session 3: Recent developments in measuring household ICT access and
individual ICT use Until
recently, only a limited amount of countries were carrying out surveys
to collect demand side data on the uptake and use of ICTs in households
and by individuals. Today, there is growing recognition that supply side
data – collected primarily by telecommunication operators – are limited
in terms of measuring the information society. While supply side
indicators are important in documenting the spread of telecommunication
networks and services, policy makers need information on where and why
(or not) people are using ICTs. Household survey data further allow
governments to produce gender-disaggregated data and identify the link
between educational and income levels on the one hand, and the use of
ICTs on the other hand. Demand side data also help to overcome some of
the shortcomings of supply side data, for example, in the area of mobile
cellular telephony. While ITU data show that there are over 5 billion
mobile cellular subscriptions, only survey data can provide information
on how many people are actually using a mobile phone, including for
accessing the Internet.
The objective of this session (3) is to present
recent developments in measuring household ICT access and individual
use, including in the area of fixed and wireless broadband. It will
include an overview of the availability of internationally comparable
household ICT statistic. Information will be presented on methodological
issues related to the collection and harmonization of data and ITU,
Eurostat and the OECD will share their experiences. National best
practice examples will be presented from countries at different levels
of development.
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Thursday, 25 November 2010 |
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09.30
– 11.00 |
Session 4: ICT
infrastructure and access indicators
The
telecommunication sector continues to be characterized by profound
changes. Developments in the mobile cellular market, in particular, have
revolutionized the way people communicate, and opened the door to new
and innovative services. Of the more than 5 billion mobile
cellular subscriptions, almost one fifth provide access to data
communications at broadband speeds and more and more people today have
access to the Internet at any time, from anywhere. Technological
improvements and new applications have also affected the fixed broadband
market and operators are actively responding to an increasing demand for
more and more bandwidth, through the roll-out of high-speed broadband
networks.
In
view of these and other changes - including the convergence of networks,
services and communication industries - and to understand and measure
current trends and developments, ITU needs to regularly review its data
collection and adapt indicators and definitions. One of the key recommendations
made at the last (2009) WTIM was to create an Expert Group on
Telecommunication/ICT Indicators (EGTI), to review and update the
indicators collected by ITU. This session (4) will present the results
of the EGTI, and present the revised version of the ITU handbook. In
particular, the session will discuss the changes that have been made to
the indicators and definitions and seek input on outstanding issues.
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11.00 – 12.30 |
Session 5:
ICT infrastructure and access indicators (continued)
A continuation of session (4),
this session (5) will focus on indicators in the area of (wired and
wireless) broadband, including indicators and definitions on speed and
quality of service. A number of international, as well as national best
practices will be presented.
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12.30 – 14.30 |
Lunch break |
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14.30 – 16.00 |
Session 6:
Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development:
measuring e-government
The Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development is an international,
multi-stakeholder initiative to improve the availability and quality of
ICT data and indicators, particularly in developing countries. One of
the key achievements of the Partnership has been the
identification of a core list of indicators. This list of 50 indicators,
which was agreed upon through a consultation process involving
governments and international organizations and endorsed by the UN
Statistical Commission, covers basic infrastructure and access
indicators as well as ICTs in households, enterprises, and education.
The list is regularly revised and expanded and the latest addition
covers a set of indicators to measure e-government. For countries to
become information societies, it is important that public
administrations take a lead in getting connected and provide online
public services to their citizens.
The use of ICTs by and within governments can also be key to enhancing
transparency and accountability and promoting good governance.
This session
(6) will present and discuss the final list of
core e-government indicators, definitions and model questions, proposed
by the Partnership.
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16.00 – 17.30 |
Session 7: Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development:
measuring the WSIS targets
The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) identified 10 targets
to be achieved by 2015. These targets range from connecting villages,
schools, health centers, libraries and government agencies to developing
content, and providing ICT services to people. So far, the review
process has been hampered by a lack of quantitative measures and
indicators to track the targets. To overcome this shortcoming the
Partnership
recently launched a task group on Measuring the WSIS Targets, with the
objective of developing a framework for monitoring the WSIS goals and
targets based on internationally defined indicators
and standards.
Since the targets include many different aspects of the information
society, the task group includes different experts from within the
Partnership, as well as from outside.
This session
(7) will present the outcome of the Partnership task group’s work
on measuring the WSIS targets and the final list of indicators.
It will provide participants with the
opportunity to discuss the proposed indicators and measurement
objectives, and to highlight progress towards the achievement of the
WSIS targets.
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Friday, 26 November 2010 |
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09.30
– 11.00 |
Session 8:
Measuring child online safety
A
large share of today’s 2 billion Internet users are children. While the
growing amount of information and applications on the Internet provides
great opportunities, it also brings threats to safety and security –
especially for children. Dangers include grooming for sexual purposes
and cyber bullying. While online, children may be victims of racism and
online fraud, and can be exposed to pornographic and violent images.
They may also become addicted to spending time online, with the risks
and lost opportunities that this entails. With continued growth of
Internet penetration and the web itself, it is likely that without
intervention, the situation will worsen. The need to be protected from
potentially harmful information has been spelled out by the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child and world governments reiterated
the need to protect children in cyberspace during the World Summit on
the Information Society in 2003 and 2005.
At the end of 2008, ITU launched the Child
Online Protection (COP) initiative in response to calls for the
protection of children in cyberspace. At the same time, it became clear
that governments needed comparable statistical information to address
these new challenges and to be able to formulate and review policies. To
this end, ITU recently published a report which proposes a statistical
framework and indicators to measure COP. This framework takes into
consideration pioneering efforts made in some countries, particularly
the EU countries and the United States.
This session
(8) will present an overview of a statistical framework for measuring
COP, as well as national and international efforts to measure and
understand the issues related to children’s online safety.
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11.00 – 12.30 |
Session 9:
Measuring ICT and climate change
In a
world that is facing increasing environmental challenges, including
through climate change, attention has turned to the relationships
between ICT and the environment. It is important to understand the role
that ICTs have in both, contributing as well as alleviating climate
change. For policy actions to be able to limit the negative outcomes and
to adequately use and promote ICTs where they can mitigate adverse
environmental effects, it is necessary to produce official and
internationally comparable statistics, based on a statistical framework
and indicators.
This session
(9) will present a number of studies and quantifiable measures to
identify the impact of ICTs on climate change. It will highlight
indicators that could be used to measure the impact of ICTs on
climate change and that are needed to allow
policy makers to make informed policy decisions.
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12.30 – 14.30 |
Lunch break |
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14.30 – 16.00 |
Concluding
session
In the concluding
session, the Chair will present the draft summary and conclusions of the meeting.
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