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)