ESCWA work on ICT measurement Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia ESCWA for Regional Integration Mansour Farah Team Leader, ICT Policies UN-ESCWA Capacity-Building Workshop on “Information Society Measurements: Household and Business Surveys” Cairo, 20-21 June 2007
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ESCWA work on ICT measurement
Economic and Social Commission for Western AsiaESCWA
for Regional Integration
Mansour FarahTeam Leader, ICT Policies
UN-ESCWA
Capacity-Building Workshop on
“Information Society Measurements: Household and Business Surveys”
Cairo, 20-21 June 2007
Regional Profile of the Information Society in Western Asia (2003, 2005, 2007)
OBJECTIVES
• To depict the status of information societies in the ESCWA member countries and the region
• To provide a tool for policy- and decision- makers
• To measure the progress made in building these societies
A periodic (biennial) exercise: 2003, 2005, 2007, …
MAIN COMPONENTS (1)
• ICT policies and strategies• Legal and regulatory frameworks for ICTs• ICT infrastructure• ICT capacity building• Building the ICT sector• ICT applications: e-government, e-learning, e-
commerce, and e-health• Digital Arabic content
Ten areas are analyzed:
MAIN COMPONENTS (2)
• 13 national profiles of the Information Society
• Comparative analysis at the regional and global levels
• Classification of ESCWA member countries according to maturity levels
• Recommendations
ESCWA, UNCTAD, OECD, and UNESCO Institute of Statistics
ESCWA Statistical Information System (ESIS)
• Generalization of the ICT indicators database
• Multi-sectoral with common statistics
• Numerical and Graphical representation of data
• Comparative analysis
• Web-based version
Capacity-building workshop on Information Society Measurement: Core Indicators, Statistics and Data
Collection
Beirut, 7-10 June 2007
ESCWA, AITRS and ITU Arab Regional Office
Capacity-Building Workshop on Information Society Measurements: Core indicators, Statistics and Data
Collection
Amman, 10-12 December 2006
Arab Office of the ITU, AITRS and ESCWA
EGM on ICT indicators Adoption and Data Collection: ICT Indicators in Education and E-Government,
Cairo, Egypt, 13-15 February 2007
Other publications
• Guidelines on ICT indicators, June 2007 (with AITRS)
• Report on ICT measurements in Western Asia, September 2006
• Translation of the “ICT Core Indicators” to Arabic, July2007 (with AITRS)