The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the United Nations agency for information and communications technology (ICT), has just issued Measuring the Information Society 2010. An executive summary of the report [PDF] is available online for free, as is a nearly complete version [PDF]. See the ITU site for complete order information.
From the 23 February 2010 press release:
The report features the latest ICT Development Index (IDI), which ranks 159 countries according to their ICT level and compares 2007 and 2008 scores. "The report confirms that despite the recent economic downturn, the use of ICT services has continued to grow worldwide," says Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid, Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT). All 159 countries included in the IDI have improved their ICT levels, and mobile cellular technology continues to be a key driver of growth.
The publication also reports data from the ICT Price Basket, which combines 2009 fixed telephone, mobile
cellular and
fixed broadband tariffs for 161 economies into one measure and compares
these across countries,
and over time. ICT prices have dropped in nearly all countries studied.
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