Research - 3rd Cycle - Indicators
|
ICT deployment and adoption have been identified as fundamental to achieving development goals. Thus, progress and efforts need to be monitored and evaluated to feedback into strategy and policy processes. Traditional indicators used by policy makers in the telecom sector are blunt instruments – useful for crude comparisons between countries, but not for informing national policy and regulation. National teledensity rates, for example, say nothing about the disparities between urban and rural communities, men and women, or rich and poor. Nor do many of the available indicators capture the range of new network technologies, services and applications or account for innovative usage adopted by the poor. Yet another problem arises in situations where research has been conducted but the data is locked in proprietary databases with the keys priced out of reach of developing country policy makers and regulators.
This thematic area is thus concerned with developing and accessing indicators that can capture and provide information about penetration and use of ICTs in developing countries. |
|
|
|
