Tài liệu Connectivity and development doc

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Connectivity and Development
David Hastings
United Nations ESCAP
Information, Communication and Space Technology Division

KMI Research, 2004
Telegeography, 2005
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Table of Contents
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Introduction – my background in designing sensing /
observing systems, developing and assessing proxy data to
describe the directly indescribable.
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Background challenges in working with current ICT
development indices
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Most data are not global
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Many indices are not clear
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What we want to measure, may not be directly observable
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Making a geographically complete A-P connection index
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Assessing the Connection Index & HDI for 2004 & 2007
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Paper findings in A-P Journal of ICST - 2006
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Roberto Pagan – UN ESCAP Stat. Division

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“Unfortunately, extensive and comparable statistics on ICT
are not abundant – collecting them not mature yet.”
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Small economies, esp. the Pacific, are often omitted.
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DAI (ITU, 2003) covers 41 A-P economies, 8 parameters.
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Infrastructure (fixed & mobile phones), Affordability (Internet access price %
of GNI per capita), Knowledge (literacy, school enrollment), Quality (Int.
bandwidth per capita, broadband subscribers %), Usage (Internet %)
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WEF Networked Readiness Index covers 17 A-P countries,
48 parameters ---?!
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A question: What can we uniquely learn from these?
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Can we do better? I think so . . .
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What relevant indicators are collected for many/most
economies?
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What indicators describe the potential for a country to use &
benefit from ICT?
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Literacy, available funds, adoption-tendency . . .
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Maybe we don’t need something new – use the established HDI
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What indicator(s) describe(s) the actual usage of ICT?

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Phone users (fixed & mobile), Internet users (own or shared)
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What might be better? Talking time? Internet usage time?
Bandwidth use? (But we don’t have these yet.)
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History of working with HDI
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Since 1987 – invented the HDI before UNDP published it
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Cluster analysis
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UNDP HDI => 177 economies - “~no progress since 1994”
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My HDI => 230+ economies
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Since ICSTD > describing the A-P situation
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An indicator for every member, even if imperfect
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Linus Torvalds => “given enough eyeballs, all bugs become shallow”
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First draft ICST indicators made in 2004, pub. 2006
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draft shown here, for pub. End 2007
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Became a foundation of Pacific Connectivity study
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Is a contribution to ICSTD's RG and trad. sections