Itu digital Access Index

120
82
15
53
100
60
8
178
Variables
Countries
Index 1
Index 2
Index 3
DAI

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Digital Access Index
• ITU expertise:
– Leading source of ICT data
– Analysis and research 
strength
• Inclusive:
– 178 economies, most of 
any other ICT index
• Transparent: 
– 5 categories, 8 indicators, 
easy to decode
• Classifications:
– High, upper, medium, low
• Flexibility: 
– gender sub-index 
– national indices
– index over time
USAGE
!
Internet users
INFRA-
STRUCTURE
AFFORDABILITY
KNOWLEDGE
QUALITY
!
Fixed 
telephone 
subscribers
!
Mobile 
cellular 
subscribers
!
Broadband
subscribers
!
International 
Internet 
bandwidth
!
Internet 
access 
price
!
School 
enrolment
!
Literacy

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Compiling DAI: Hong Kong, China
Note: 
a) Because of the large spread of values among economies, a logarithm is used to calculate this value:
(LOG (1’867) – LOG (0.01)) / (LOG (10’000) – LOG (0.01))
0.79
Digital Access Index (Average of 5 categories above)
=
Index value
*
Weight
=
Indicator
÷
Goal-
post
HK, 
China
Variable
Category
0.68
0.83
0.93
0.51
1
0.51
85
43.0
8. Internet users per 100 
inhabitants
5. Usage
½
0.49
30
14.6
7. Broadband subscribers per 100 
inhabitants
0.44
+
0.21
½
0.88a
10’000
1’867
6. International Internet bandwidth 
(bits) per capita
4. Quality
1/3
0.63
100
63.0
5. Combined primary, secondary 
and tertiary school enrolment level
0.62
+
0.21
2/3
0.94
100
93.5
4. Adult literacy
3. Know-
ledge
0.998
1
0.998
100
99.8
3. 1 – (Internet access price as 
percentage of per capita income)
2. Afford-
ability
½
0.92
100
91.6
2. Mobile cellular subscribers per 
100 inhabitants
0.47
+
0.46
½
0.94
60
56.6
1. Fixed telephone subscribers per 
100 inhabitants
1. Infra-
structure

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Where ICTs are headed
50
55
60
65
70
1975
1985
1995
Fixed telephone subscribers
per 100 inhabitants in Sweden
0
20
40
60
80
100
1988 1991 1994 1997 2000
Mobile telephone subscribers
per 100 inhabitants in Taiwan, China
0
20
40
60
80
100
1990 1994 1998 2002 2006
Internet users 
per 100 inhabitants in Iceland
% of 
sample 
pop-
ulation
(12-80)
% of entire 
population
0
20
40
60
80
100
1997
99
01
03
05
07
Broadband Internet subscribers
in Korea (Rep.)
Per 100 
inhabitants
Per 100 
households

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Top 10
0.716
0.44
0.44
0.94
0.97
0.78
Slovenia
24
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
0.778
0.65
0.54
0.97
0.99
0.74
United States
0.779
0.60
0.64
0.97
0.99
0.69
Canada
0.786
0.45
0.56
0.95
0.99
0.98
Taiwan, China
0.786
0.60
0.55
0.99
0.99
0.81
Finland
0.790
0.51
0.68
0.83
1.00
0.93
Hong Kong, China
0.792
0.60
0.61
0.99
0.99
0.78
Netherlands
0.793
0.59
0.55
0.99
0.99
0.84
Norway
0.817
0.65
0.74
0.96
0.99
0.74
Korea (Rep.)
0.820
0.76
0.50
0.96
0.99
0.89
Iceland
0.828
0.60
0.66
0.99
0.99
0.89
Denmark
0.847
0.67
0.64
0.99
0.99
0.94
Sweden
DAI
Usage
Quality
Know-
ledge
Afford-
ability
Infra-
structure
Economy

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State of the world
25
40
58
55
0
0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4
0.5
0.6
0.7
0.8
0.9
High
Upper Medium
Low
DAI
# countries
Infra-
structure
Affordability
Knowledge
Quality
Usage
High
Upper
Medium
Low

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Reversal of fortune
0.55
0.56
0.59
0.56
0.58
0.61
0.66
0.66
0.61
0.60
0.81
0.78
0.79
0.75
0.75
0.77
0.77
0.78
0.74
0.72
New
Zealand
Australia United
States
Canada United
Kingdom
Japan Singapore Hong
Kong,
China
Taiwan,
China
Korea
(Rep.)
DAI 
1998
DAI
2002
Change in rank 
relative to 40 
economies
+20
-9
-8
-5
+13
-5
-3
+4
+5
+6

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2003 
World Telecommunication 
Development Report
Access Indicators for the 
Information Society
Launch 8 December 2003
World Summit on the 
Information Society (WSIS) 
[Geneva, December 2003]
Main event [December 10-12]
http://www.itu.int/wsis
Statistical event [December 8-9]
http://www.unece.org/stats/doc
uments/2003.12.wsis.htm
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