1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.)

5. 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.