ESCWA Publication: E/ESCWA/ICTD/2005/WG.1/6
Country: Arab region
Publication Type: Meeting reports
Cluster: Statistics, Information Society and Technology
Focus Area: Statistics, Technology & innovation
Initiatives: Arab information society
SDGs: Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Keywords: Arab countries, Capacity building, Data collection, Ict indicators, Information society, Measurement, Statistical data
Report of the Capacity-building Workshop on Information Society Measurements: Core Indicators, Statistics, and Data Collection
January 2005
The Workshop provided a forum for disseminating case studies, thereby highlighting the successes and challenges of countries engaged in building capacity in indicator collection. The sharing of relevant information by Egypt, Iraq, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar and Tunisia provided practical insight into actual needs of Arab countries, and helped identify the critical dimensions and recommended actions for capacity-building planning in Western Asia and the Arab region. The recommended actions form a capacity-building plan for stakeholders in order to promote the adoption and collection of core ICT indicators in support of policymaking at both the national and regional levels. The capacity-building plan is an ESCWA contribution aimed at fulfilling the mandate of the global “Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development”, which in turn seeks to enhance the capacities of national statistical offices (NSOs) in developing countries and to build competences to develop statistical compilation programmes on the information society, based on international indicators.
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The Workshop provided a forum for disseminating case studies, thereby highlighting the successes and challenges of countries engaged in building capacity in indicator collection. The sharing of relevant information by Egypt, Iraq, Mauritania, Oman, Palestine, Qatar and Tunisia provided practical insight into actual needs of Arab countries, and helped identify the critical dimensions and recommended actions for capacity-building planning in Western Asia and the Arab region. The recommended actions form a capacity-building plan for stakeholders in order to promote the adoption and collection of core ICT indicators in support of policymaking at both the national and regional levels. The capacity-building plan is an ESCWA contribution aimed at fulfilling the mandate of the global “Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development”, which in turn seeks to enhance the capacities of national statistical offices (NSOs) in developing countries and to build competences to develop statistical compilation programmes on the information society, based on international indicators.
