| NOTAS: | "Welcome to the new edition of the ITU Handbook for the Collection of Administrative Data on Telecommunications/ICT. This handbook, which contains over 90 internationally-agreed indicators to help track global ICT developments, is an important reference document for collecting and analysing data on the telecommunication services sector. It is designed to help countries monitor progress towards becoming information societies, based on international statistical standards, and is an important contribution to improving analysis and benchmarking across countries. The expansion and revision of indicators over the past two and a half decades reflects not only the changes in the telecommunication/ICT services sector, but also the fact that ICT developments have become a key feature in today’s overall development debate. Some of the indicators included in this handbook are part of a wider effort to monitor the information society – for example, the Core List of ICT Indicators and the Thematic List of ICT indicators for the SDGs, both by the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development, as well as indicators to measure the achievement of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) targets. This new edition of the handbook also covers indicators included in other international development initiatives, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)." |
