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ESCWA work on ICT measurement

ESCWA. Regional Integration. for. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. Capacity-Building Workshop on “Information Society Measurements: Household and Business Surveys” Cairo, 20-21 June 2007. ESCWA work on ICT measurement. Mansour Farah Team Leader, ICT Policies UN-ESCWA.

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ESCWA work on ICT measurement

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  1. ESCWA Regional Integration for Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia Capacity-Building Workshop on “Information Society Measurements: Household and Business Surveys” Cairo, 20-21 June 2007 ESCWA work on ICT measurement Mansour Farah Team Leader, ICT Policies UN-ESCWA

  2. Regional Profile of the Information Society in Western Asia (2003, 2005, 2007)

  3. OBJECTIVES • Todepict 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, …

  4. MAIN COMPONENTS (1) Ten areas are analyzed: • 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

  5. 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

  6. ESCWA, UNCTAD, OECD, and UNESCO Institute of Statistics

  7. 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

  8. Capacity-building workshop on Information Society Measurement: Core Indicators, Statistics and Data CollectionBeirut, 7-10 June 2007ESCWA, AITRS and ITU Arab Regional Office

  9. Capacity-Building Workshop on Information Society Measurements: Core indicators, Statistics and Data CollectionAmman, 10-12 December 2006Arab Office of the ITU, AITRS and ESCWA

  10. EGM on ICT indicators Adoption and Data Collection: ICT Indicators in Education and E-Government, Cairo, Egypt, 13-15 February 2007

  11. 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)

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