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Measuring Digital Development: The ICT Development Index
Geneva: ITU (2025), iv, 36 pp.
"I am pleased to present the 2025 edition of the ICT Development Index (IDI). This is the third edition based on the revised methodology adopted by Member States in 2023. The current IDI is anchored in the concept of universal and meaningful connectivity (UMC), a term coined by ITU in 2021 that has
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Internet Universality: Advancing Inclusive Digital Transformation with ROAM-X Indicators
Key Guidance
Paris: UNESCO (2024), 126 pp.
Designing a Rights-Based Global Index on Responsible AI
Cape Town: Research ICT Africa (2022), 14 pp.
"As we move forward in deepening our collective understanding of how AI is reshaping our societies, and what policy models are required to best manage its effects in service of human and planetary wellbeing, information is needed on the global state of implementation of the UNESCO principles and the
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Artificial Intelligence Index Report 2022
Top Insights
AI Index Steering Committee;Stanford University, Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (2022), 229 pp.
"The fifth edition of the AI Index Report includes data from a broad set of academic, private, and nonprofit organizations as well as more self-collected data and original analysis than any previous editions, including an expanded technical performance chapter, a new survey of robotics researchers a
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How broadband, digitization and ICT regulation impact the global economy: Global econometric modelling
Geneva: ITU (2020), vi, 50 pp.
"This study uses econometric modelling to examine two major components of great importance to all those concerned with investment decisions in ICT and the digital ecosystem over the coming decade. The modelling is built on data from 139 countries between 2007 and 2018 – an up-to-date data set that
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Manual for measuring ICT access and use by households and individuals
Geneva: ITU (2020), xii, 335 pp.
Since ITU first published this Manual in 2009, the digital technology sector has evolved almost beyond recognition. The Internet is now accessed through a multitude of devices, including mobile phones, tablets and similar handheld computers. The impressive spread of mobile broadband networks has bro
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UNESCO’s Internet Universality Indicators: A Framework for Assessing Internet Development
Key Guidance
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 198 pp.
"The four principles identified as key to Internet Universality are summarised as the R-O-A-M principles, and are fundamental to the development of the Internet in ways that are conducive to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals with no one left behind. These principles are: R – that the int
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Measuring the Information Society Report 2018. Vol.1
Geneva: ITU (2018), xi, 189 pp.
Measuring the Information Society Report 2017. Vol.1
Geneva: ITU (2017), xi, 154 pp.
Measuring the Information Society Report 2016
Geneva: ITU (2016), 256 pp.
"This annual report presents a global and regional overview of the latest developments regarding information and communication technologies (ICTs), based on internationally comparable data and agreed methodologies. It aims to stimulate the ICT policy debate in ITU Member States by providing an objec
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The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World
Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2013), 413 pp.
"Through the methodological framework of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), the report measures the extent to which 144 economies, from both the developed and developing worlds, take advantage of ICTs and other new technologies to increase their growth and well-being. The NRI identifies the most r
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The Global Information Technology Report 2012: Living in a Hyperconnected World
Geneva: World Economic Forum;INSEAD (2012), 413 pp.
"The Report is composed of four thematic parts. Part 1 describes the conceptual framework and relates the findings of the Networked Readiness Index (NRI) 2012. In addition, Part 1 features selected expert contributions on the general theme of hyperconnectivity. Part 2 includes two case studies showi
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Virtual Change: Indicators for Assessing the Impact of ICTs in Development
Rome: FAO (2009), ix, 38 pp.
Measuring the Information Society: The ICT Development Index
Geneva: ITU (2009), viii, 96 pp.
"In the developing world, mobile phones have revolutionised telecommunication and have reached an estimated average 49.5 per cent penetration rate at the end of 2008 – from close to zero only ten years ago. This is not only faster than any other technology in the past, but the mobile phone is also
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Towards Information Literacy Indicators: Conceptual Framework Paper
Paris: UNESCO (2008), 44 pp.
"This paper provides a conceptual framework for the identification of indicators of information literacy (IL) and proposes a pathway for cost effective and timely development. The paper includes a definition of IL; a model that links information literacy with other adult competencies including Infor
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The Global Information Society: A Statistical View
Santiago de Chile: United Nations;Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development (2008), 157 pp.
Global Information Society Watch 2007: Focus on Participation
Association for Progressive Communications (APC) (2007), 215 pp.
"The experience of citizen involvement in public policy advocacy around the world has shown that the status quo tends to prevail unless political will to implement change is strengthened by active citizen participation. A “Global Information Society Watch” is needed to make governments and inter
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World Information Society Report 2007: Beyond WSIS
Geneva: ITU (2007), 207 pp.
"The second edition of the World Information Society Report, published by ITU and UNCTAD, looks beyond the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS, Geneva 2003 - Tunis 2005) to the creation of an inclusive, people-centred and development-oriented Information Society, open to all. The report tr
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Core ICT Indicators
United Nations;Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development (2007), 48 pp.
"[...] a key objective of the global Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development is to set standards and harmonize ICT statistics at the global level. To this end, it has worked to develop a core list of ICT indicators that could be collected by all countries and serve as a basis for internationall
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Information Economy Report 2006: The Development Perspective
New York; Geneva: United Nations (2006), 314 pp.
