ITU World Telecommunication Indicators Donor Agencies Briefing Measuring ICT for Development Geneva, 18 October 2004 ITU World Telecommunication Indicators Esperanza Magpantay Market, Economics and Finance Unit (MEF) Telecommunication Development Bureau

Market Economics and Finance Unit (MEF) ITU/BDT/PSF/MEF The ITU, through its Indicators, is the main source of internationally comparable data on telecommunications World Telecommunication Indicators Meeting Every two years Identify and define telecom indicators to be collected

ITU Indicators - what is available? Telephone network (main telephone lines) Mobile services (cellular subscribers) Traffic (local, national, international) Staff (total, mobile) Quality of Service (faults, waiting list) Tariffs (fixed, cellular, Internet) Revenues & Investment (total, fixed, cellular) Broadcasting (TV, radio) Information Technology (Internet users, Internet subscribers, PC) World Telecommunication Indicators Database

What else we want to measure? Households Percentage of Households with: PC Radio TV Telephone Internet access (from home) Individual Percentage of population that use a computer Percentage of population that use Internet (age, gender, education, location, frequency of use, purpose, etc.)

The digital divide and the statistical divide Statistical Divide is greater than digital divide. 80% of world’s population in 2003 is in low and lower middle economies but only around 25% Internet users. 60% of countries are low and lower middle income but no survey done in low income countries. Most available only in OECD member countries Survey conducted are not comparable. Source: ITU, 2003.