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First Multi-stakeholder WSIS+10 Review Event 25-27 February 2013

Measuring the WSIS Targets within Unesco’s field of competence

Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development Measuring the WSIS Targets

Vanessa GRAYIDS/BDT/ITU

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Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development

Global initiative to improve internationally comparable ICT statistics, launched in 2004

Response to the WSIS request to monitor the information society

Helps measure the information society: Defining a core list of ICT Indicators and methodologies Assisting developing countries Collecting and disseminating information society statistics

Membership includes all international and regional agencies involved in official ICT statistics ITU, OECD, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNDESA, World Bank, ECA,

ECLAC, ESCAP, ESCWA, EUROSTAT, UNEP SBC

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The 10 WSIS targets

The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS, 2003/2005) outcome documents included reference to 10 WSIS targets to assess global progress towards the information society by 2015 (in line with Millennium Development Goals)

Targets range from connecting villages, schools, and health centers to developing online content and providing people with ICT access

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Original WSIS targets1. To connect villages with ICTs and establish community access points2. To connect universities, colleges, secondary schools and primary schools with

ICTs3. To connect scientific and research centres with ICTs4. To connect public libraries, cultural centres, museums, post offices and

archives with ICTs5. To connect health centres and hospitals with ICTs6. To connect all local and central government departments and establish

websites and e-mail addresses7. To adapt all primary and secondary school curricula to meet the challenges of

the information society, taking into account national circumstances 8. To ensure that all of the world’s population have access to television and radio

services9. To encourage the development of content and put in place technical

conditions in order to facilitate the presence and use of all world languages on the Internet

10.To ensure that more than half the world’s inhabitants have access to ICTs within their reach

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2009: Measurement process initiated by ITU, as part of its role in the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development

ITU World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report (WTDR) 2010, jointly with other partners

Launch of the new Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development Task Group on Measuring the WSIS targets (TG WSIS)

Monitoring the WSIS targets – process

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Partnership Task Group on Measuring the WSIS targets (TG WSIS)

Launched during WSIS Forum 2010 (May 2010)

Includes Partnership members and external collaborators (WSIS community)

Worked through an open consultation process/ online forum to refine and discuss indicators and definitions and published Measuring the WSIS Targets – A statistical framework in May 2011, at the WSIS Forum

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10 (+1) targets & 49 indicators to assess the global information society

Measuring the WSIS Targets A statistical framework with

indicators, definitions, benchmarks and collection methodologies

To guide countries in their data collection efforts and help them measure progress towards becoming information societies

The main reference document for the final review of the achievements made towards meeting the WSIS targets in 2014

http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/partnership/wsistargets/index.html

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WSIS+10 review

ITU High-level meeting on the overall review of WSIS in 20142012 meta-data questionnaire 2013 WSIS Targets questionnaire will be sent to

countries to evaluate/measure the WSIS targetsPartnership will prepare quantitative assessment

report for WSIS+10 review, based on the framework document

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WSIS Targets meta-data questionnaire

Sent to 193 countries through UN Regional Commissions (ECA, ECLAC, ESCWA, ESCAP), OECD, Eurostat, UNCTAD

Sent to national WSIS focal points (usually ICT Ministries or NSOs)

Relatively low response rate: 28%Lack of data?Lack of awareness/visibility?Lack of coordination?

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Source: Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development. Note: *Other includes the OECD non-EU members states (Australia, Canada, Israel, Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Turkey, USA ) as well as Albania, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia, Ukraine.

WSIS Targets meta-data questionnaire response rate

Global average: 28%

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Source: Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development. Note: *Preliminary data based on response rate by 24 February 2013. Availability based only on those 54 countries that responded to the WSIS meta-data questionnaire.

Availability of data by target*

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Key findings and lessons learned

Low response rate Increase awareness about WSIS targets Encourage countries to coordinate WSIS targets data

collection

Data availability higher for basic ICT infrastructure, access and household/ business data

Lack of data in particular in the areas of culture, content, language, education Work with UNESCO constituency

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