Informative ReadingFrom the Digital Divide to Digital Opportunities: Measuring Infostates for Development.

From the Digital Divide to Digital Opportunities: Measuring Infostates for Development. ITU and UNESCO. … The (ICT Opportunity) index shows that digital opportunities are unequally distributed and suggests that the gap between the ICT-poorest countries and most others is actually growing. … As part of a larger collaborative project, the index is based on the Infostate conceptual framework that allows linkages of ICTs to economic development through the country’s productive capacity and use of ICTs. It relies on 21 indicators that help measure ICT networks, education and skills, uptake and intensity of the use of ICT. For analytical purposes, economies are grouped into 5 categories, from ‘high’ to ‘low’ Infostates. … A major contribution of this report is the systematic investigation of the gender divide, which for the first time includes a significant quantitative component, particularly since ICT measurements and comparative analyses in this area have been scarce… Download the free publication in English or French (PDF format)