Resources from Global Event on Measuring the Information Society
Alison Gillwald, Research Director for the LINK Centre and Research ICT Africa!, and Helani Galpaya, Director of Strategic Development for LIRNEasia, both attended the recent 2008 Global Event on Measuring the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland on 27 – 29 May. Galpaya acted as Facilitator for the session Advancing the ICT Agenda.
Gillwald presented a first glance at the data of the just completed 2008 E-access and Household Survey of 20 African countries. The presentation can be downloaded here.
Click here to go to the event agenda, with links to all of the presentations.
George Sciadas of Statistics Canada made a presentation on The Interdependence of Information Society Measurement and Policies. To illustrate this kind of linkage, his presentation used the example of LIRNEasia’s intervention to remove the proposed regressive tax on mobile phones, using its 2006 T@BOP2 survey data as an example of statistics and data being used successfully (see LIRNEasia on policy influence and dialogue).
The Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development is an international, multi-stakeholder initiative to improve the availability and quality of ICT data and indicators, particularly in developing countries. It provides an open framework for coordinating ongoing and future activities, and for developing a coherent and structured approach to advancing the development of ICT indicators globally.
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