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State and evolution of ICTs: A tale of two Asias

Article Index
State and evolution of ICTs: A tale of two Asias
The region's aggregate picture
Specific ICTs
The story of progress
Pacific Island States
Notes
References

George Sciadas

 

This section provides a quantitative overview of the state and relative progress of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the Asia Pacific region, and it is intended to complement the work in this volume, including the individual country chapters. It must be borne in mind that the figures on ICT diffusion and use are affected significantly, if not determined outrightly, by the multitude of developments concerning the new technologies or their applications, government policies or their absence, regulation and business initiatives described in this publication. Therefore, the analysis that follows aspires to offer a realistic perspective against which to assess the combined reach and effects of these developments as they are reflected in the figures at any given time.

Following the merger of the work of Orbicom and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in the area of international benchmarking for the information society, this quantitative analysis is based on ITU's ICT Opportunity Index (ITU 2007) and it uses Orbicom's Infostate conceptual framework, which is based on the quantifiable notions of Infodensity and Infouse. This framework enables analysis both across and within countries over time, as well as the monitoring of progress with regard to specific ICTs (Orbicom 2003, 2005).

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The ICT Opportunity Index is the aggregation of the following components and indicators:

ICT Opportunity Index

 

Indicators

Infodensity

Networks

 

Main telephone lines per 100 inhabitants

 

Mobile cellular subscribers per 100 inhabitants

 

International Internet bandwidth

 

(kbs per inhabitant)

 

Skills

 

Adult literacy rates

 

Gross enrolment rates

 

primary

 

secondary

 

tertiary

Infouse

ICT uptake

 

Internet users per 100 inhabitants

 

Proportion of households with a TV

 

Computers per 100 inhabitants

 

Intensity of use

 

Total broadband Internet subscribers per

 

100 inhabitants

 

International outgoing telephone traffic

 

(minutes) per capita



 

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