Measuring the Information Society 2010
Foreword
Table of contents
List of charts
List of gures
List of boxes
List of tables
Executive Summary
Recent market developments
The ICT Development Index (IDI)
Monitoring the Digital Divide
The ICT Price Basket
Measuring ICT impact
Chapter 1 Introduction
Recent market developments
Main objectives and content of the report
Chapter 2 The ICT Development Index (IDI)
Introduction
Global IDI analysis
IDI breakdown by sub-indices (access, use and skills)
The IDI by region
Chapter 3 Measuring the digital divide
IDI by level of development
Using the IDI to measure the digital divide
Time-distance analysis
Chapter 4 The ICT Price Basket
Introduction and objectives of the ICT Price Basket
ICT Price Basket methodology
ICT Price Basket results and assessment
Sub-basket results and assessment
Sub-basket results by region and level of development
Chapter 5 The impact of ICTs on growth and development
Introduction
Productivity impact analysis
The importance of intangibles and comple- mentary investments
The importance of household Internet access
List of references
Annex 1. ICT Development Index (IDI) methodology
Indicators included in the IDI
Imputation of missing data
Normalization of data
Weighting and aggregation
Calculating the IDI
Sensitivity analysis
Annex 2: ICT Price Basket methodology
Fixed telephone sub-basket
The mobile cellular sub-basket
Fixed broadband sub-basket
Annex 3: Statistical tables of indicators used to compute the IDI
Annex 4: Statistical tables of tariffs used to compute the ICT Price Basket