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ICT Policy and Analysis Unit - ICT and E-Business Branch
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Joint UNCTAD-ITU-UNESCAP Regional Workshop on
Information Society Measurements in Asia-Pacific,
Bangkok, 26-28 July 2006
UNCTAD
Work on ICT Measurement
Ms. Muriel Guigue
ICT Policy and Analysis Unit
ICT and E-Business Branch, SITE
UNCTAD
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Presentation outline
Why measuring the information economy?
How to measure?
International ICT business data collection
Availability of ICT business indicators
UNCTAD E-Business Survey
UNCTAD Technical Assistance activities
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Why measuring the information economy?
 To assess the impact of ICTs on economic growth,
trade, and enterprise competitiveness
 To collect evidence on ICT uptake and use at the
national level
 To better target national ICT policies and create an
enabling environment for e-business
 To benchmark your country’s information economy
against those of your neighbors, and/or globally.
 To take informed investment and business
decisions
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How to measure?
National data collection
Survey vehicles
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Administrative sources
Business registers
Economic censuses
Sectoral enterprise surveys (manufacturing, services)
• Specific ICT surveys
International data collection and
databases
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International ICT business data collection
 OECD: ICT business data for OECD member
countries
 Eurostat: ICT business data for EU
 UNCTAD: ICT business data for
(selected) developing countries
 Others (WB, other regional bodies, private
providers)
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Availability of ICT business indicators
ICT business indicators are scarce in developing
countries
 Only small number of developing countries currently
collect ICT business indicators
 Most countries collect basic access indicators
(availability of telephone, computer or Internet)
 Data collection is mainly through manufacturing and
services establishment surveys, which most NSOs
already have in place
 More advanced indicators are collected through specific
ICT surveys
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 Annual survey with developing country NSOs
 Based on the metadata collection and on the
feedback received from NSOs.
 Based on the Core list of ICT Indicators
 Indicators on ICT use
in enterprises
 ICT sector added in 2006
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Annual survey with developing country NSOs
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2004: 23 countries – 10 comparable results
2005: 39 countries – 19 comparable results
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2006: 60 countries – 22 comparable results
Indicators on ICT use in enterprises and the
ICT sector
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Asia Pacific Region
 2004: 7 countries (+ 3 contacted jointly with OCED)
 2005: 8 countries
 2006: 13 countries
2006: Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Nepal,
Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Thailand
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Indicator
Number of countries
collecting the indicator in
the region
ICT usage total numbers
9
ICT usage by company size
7
ICT usage in urban and rural regions
1
ICT usage by sector of the economy
9
ICT sector workforce
6
Value added in the ICT sector
5
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Indicator
Number of countries
collecting the indicator in
the region
Businesses using the Internet
9
Businesses using computers
8
Businesses with a website
9
Businesses receiving orders over the Internet
6
Businesses placing orders over the Internet
6
Businesses accessing the Internet by modes of access:
• Analogue modem
5
• ISDN
4
• Fixed line connection under 2 Mbps
5
• Fixed line connection of 2 Mbps or more
4
• Other
4
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Indicator
Number of countries
collecting the indicator
in the region
Businesses using the Internet by type of activity:
• Internet e-mail
7
• Getting information about goods or services
5
• Getting information from gov. organizations/public authorities
5
• Other information searches and research
4
• Internet banking or accessing other financial services
4
• Transacting with government organizations/public authorities
2
• Providing customer services
4
• Delivering products online
4
• Other
3
Businesses with a local area network (LAN)
8
Businesses with an intranet
5
Businesses with an extranet
5
Employees using computers
5
Employees using the Internet
4
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Computer, Internet and website availability at enterprises
100.0%
80.0%
Computer usage
60.0%
Internet usage
40.0%
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(1) Refers to enterprises with 10 or more employees.
(2) Refers to enterprises with 15 or more employees.
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E-commerce
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Source: UNCTAD e-business database, 2006.
(1) Refers to enterprises with 10 or more employees.
(2) Refers to enterprises with 15 or more employees.
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Results published in the:
Information Economy Report
(previous E-Commerce and
Development Report)
Next issue to be released in
November 2006
http://r0.unctad.org/ecommerce/
UNCTAD Information Economy Database
soon available
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What we have learned
Comparability:
Lack of continuity in data collection (one-off surveys)
Differences in types of surveys, sampling units, frames,
sizes, denominator
Differences in response categories (e.g. modes of
access and activities the Internet is used for)
Availability:
 Lack of coordination between Government entities
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Suggestions for action: policy level
Long-term process: start early (start small)
Awareness creation among policy makers
Link ICT agenda with e-measurement agenda
both nationally and internationally (follow-up to
WSIS)
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Suggestions for action: technical level
Coordination among national statistical systems
Use core list as a starting point (add questions to
existing surveys)
Use agreed-upon definitions and indicators –
need to harmonize results
Capacity building in NSOs: definitions and
methodologies; survey implementation and data collection;
database development and analysis
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UNCTAD Technical assistance activities
 UNCTAD’s work on capacity building:
 Assisting statistical agencies in developing countries in
their ICT data collection and dissemination efforts, via
advisory missions;
 Developing and delivering a specialized training
course (as well as a manual);
 Conducting technical workshops at the regional level.
UNCTAD leads the Partnership Task Group on Capacity
Building
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ICT and E-Business Branch
UNCTAD – United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Joint UNCTAD-ITU-UNESCAP Regional
Workshop on Information Society Measurements
in Asia-Pacific, Bangkok, 26-28 July 2006
THANK YOU!
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