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Adapting the indicators
Simon P. Ellis
Head of Communication Statistics
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The information society
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Its already here! ESCWA countries
need to catch up
OECD already have a full set of
operable indicators
They need adapting to regional
contexts
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WSIS
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World Summit on the Information
Society in Tunis November 2006
An international partnership has
been working on indicators
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ITU, UNCTAD, OECD, UNESCO,
Regional Commissions and others
Partnership also committed to
capacity building
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Why international data standards and
definitions?
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International comparison
Global indicator reports
To measure progress against
global goals
National standards for national
policy
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Objectives of annex
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Limitations in measurement
What dimensions should be
captured?
What is appropriate for non-OECD
countries?
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Some major dimensions to consider
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What are the policy issues that
need to be captured?
What data are already available?
What new indicators might be
feasible?
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Fundamental principles
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Only collect what is necessary
Minimise response burden
Don’t duplicate (don’t collect what
others are already collecting)
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Main chapters in OECD text
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ICT products
Demand form households and
individuals
Content
Social impact
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ICT products
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How to capture market characteristics?
Leapfroging
» Mobiles more important than landlines
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Linking technologies
» TV to internet or Internet to print
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Infrastructure
» Electricity
» Bandwidth
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Demand by business
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Business registers – sample base
E-commerce, marketing or
research
International or national market?
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Household and individual demand
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How to measure community access?
Which questions to incorporate in
existing surveys?
Administration of survey eg post or
interview
Literacy
» How to use PCs
» How to access information
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Variability in access and bandwidth
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Content
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Content for whom? Audience
Language
E-commerce or marketing
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Social impact
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Rural and urban distinctions
E-governance who uses?
Remote access to
» Health info. and doctors
» Education material and teachers
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E-readiness
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Which indicators identify
preconditions for the information
society?
How fast is the information
revolution moving? Eg. Straight to
wireless
» Frequency of survey
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E-readiness 2
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Availability of training
Availability of infrastructure
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Electricity, phone lines
Connectivity or bandwidth
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A major question
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Why is Arab States the only region
where increasing usage has not led
to increased local content?
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Some successes
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Bahrain
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Government Data Network
» 1GB per second between all gov. depts.
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Internet banking; 20% of inet users
Jordan Education Initiative
» E-curricula
» National Learning Network
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How to measure impact?
How to replicate?
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Some principals for adaptation
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Geographic: some topics may not be
applicable to some parts of the country
Data availability: different datasets may
provide different indicators. If no data
available estimate (with metadata)
Administration: technicalities of questions may
require personal interviews
Sampling frames: both demographic and
enterprise registers may not be complete
leading to coverage or sampling problems
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Some principals for adaptation
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Evolution of market: relationship
between technologies leap frogging,
combined technologies, to be captured
> frequency of survey
E-readiness: surveys may be more
applicable for least-developed
provinces/districts
Content: needs to be taken into account
as reflecting market – software in
Arabic, web sites for info or ecommerce
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