Core ICT indicators : partnership on measuring ICT for development Sheridan Roberts [electronic resource] /

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Beirut : UNESCWA, 2005

The core list of ICT indicators presented in this document was the outcome of an intensive consultation process of the Partnership with national statistics offices (NSOs). This included a stocktaking exercise through which metadata on the status of official information society statistics were obtained from NSOs worldwide, as well as a series of regional events that discussed core ICT indicators. From these processes, a proposal for a core list of ICT indicators was presented by the Partnership, and adopted by participants, at the WSIS Thematic Meeting on Measuring the Information Society (Geneva, February 2005). This report provides definitions, model questions and methodological notes relevant to the core indicators agreed at the February 2005 meeting. By making this information available to a wide audience, in particular in developing countries, it is hoped to be of use to countries developing their statistical data collection programmes on the information society.
The report was drafted by Sheridan Roberts of OECD, based on substantive contributions from ITU, UNCTAD, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, UNECLAC*, UNESCWA and Eurostat, and draws on discussions held in the framework of the OECD Working Party on Indicators for the Information Society and the ITU World Telecommunication Indicators meeting. The report was edited by OECD and Eurostat, and the layout was contributed by the World Bank and UNESCWA. The report was printed by UNESCWA.

Includes bibliographical references and index