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Measuring Community Access to ICTs

Joint ITU/ECA Regional Workshop on ICT Indicators Gaborone, Botswana 26-29 October 2004. Measuring Community Access to ICTs. Vanessa Gray (vanessa.gray@itu.int) Market Economics and Finance Unit Telecommunication Development Bureau.

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Measuring Community Access to ICTs

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  1. Joint ITU/ECA Regional Workshop on ICT Indicators Gaborone, Botswana26-29 October 2004 Measuring Community Access to ICTs Vanessa Gray (vanessa.gray@itu.int) Market Economics and Finance Unit Telecommunication Development Bureau The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the ITU or its Membership.

  2. Why community access matters… Internet users frequenting Internet cafés,%, 2002 Households with ICT,%, 2001/02 Source: ITU adapted from national surveys. Note: For Canada, 1.2% refers to Canadian households reporting that a member uses the Internet from an Internet Café.

  3. And how to define and measure it: An example from the EU Public Internet Access Points per 100 inhabitants, selected EU countries • Number of Public Internet Access Points (PIAP) per 1000 inhabitants • Collected by each member state, annually • Supplementary indicators • Number of public access points (excluding private initiatives) • Number of free PIAPs • Percentage of libraries offering Internet access to the public Source: EU. List of eEurope Benchmarking indicators: http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/benchmarking/indicator_list.pdf

  4. Publinets are government-sponsored Internet centres that provide affordable access In July 2003, around 30’000 Tunisians accessed the Internet through one of the 281 Publinets This represents 10% of all Internet users and 0.3% of the total population Tunisia’s Publinets Source: http://www.ati.nat.tn/publinets/index.htm

  5. Internet user surveys Preferred location of access in selected EU countries, 2003, (multiple choice) • Where have you accessed the Internet in the last 3 months? • At home • At the workplace • At place of education • Internet café Source: eEurope+ Household Survey, June 2003.

  6. ITU Mandate • ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (Marrakesh, 2002) • Recognizes that traditional indicators (such as main telephone lines per 100 inhabitants) are not sufficient to measure ICT penetration • Instructs the ITU to define and adopt new indicators for the purpose of measuring the impact of community connectivity • WSIS Plan of Action • Calls for the evaluation and follow-up through comparable statistical indicators, “including community connectivity indicators”

  7. Global Indicators Workshop on Community Access to ICTs • Organized jointly • To take place • Additional indicators • What is available

  8. Community Access Questionnaire • The number of localities with public Internet access centres (PIACs) by number of inhabitants (rural/urban) • Percentage of population with access to PIACs by type of PIAC (governmental/private) • Potential/target population using PIACs

  9. For more information, please contact: Vanessa Gray Vanessa.gray@itu.int

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