Statistics: World Information Society Report 2007
The second edition of the World Information Society Report: Beyond WSIS, published by ITU and UNCTAD, looks beyond WSIS to the creation of an inclusive, people-centred and development-oriented Information Society, open to all.
The opening chapter looks at the challenges of measuring the ICT sector while chapter two examines progress in bridging the digital divide. Chapter three focuses on emerging trends in the information society worldwide and chapter four looks at national ICT strategies. Chapter five considers the threats to cybersecurity, while chapter six provides an update on WSIS implementation and presents a number of ICT success stories across the world.
The report is accompanied by a series of tables providing the latest statistics on the development of ICTs worldwide.
Direct to Executive Summary
30 pages; PDF.
Direct to Full Text Report ||| Review Table of Contents
175 pages; PDF.
See Also: Digital Opportunity Map and Table for 181 Countries
Many other maps are also available.
See Also: Digital Opportunity Index
See Also: World Mobile Broadband Statistics (via ITU Strategy and Policy Unit Newslog)
By the start of 2007, some 79 economies around the world had launched commercial services for “mobile broadband”, or cellular mobile services offering speeds of 256 kbit/s or more, with 18 of these economies launching during 2006. Popularly referred to as third-generation (3G) mobile, there are now more 100 million users worldwide that are able to use their mobile phones at broadband speeds. Across the world, there are two main technologies in operation: CDMA 1x EV-DO (which is used in 30 economies, mainly in the Americas and Europe) and W-CDMA (which is used in almost 50 economies, and is particularly popular in Europe). Around half of the economies using W-CDMA have now also launched High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) which offers much faster speeds, up to 14.4 Mbit/s.
See Also: ICT Eye
The collection of over 100 telecommunication/ICT indicators is one of the main activities of the unit.
See Also: 2006 Edition of World Information Society Report
Source: International Telecommunications Union
Thanks to Pete W. for the news tip.
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