{"id":33153,"date":"2013-10-09T05:58:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T10:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ict-pulse.com\/?p=33153"},"modified":"2013-10-10T08:33:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T13:33:13","slug":"world-performing-as-information-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ict-pulse.com\/2013\/10\/world-performing-as-information-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot: How is the world performing as an Information Society?"},"content":{"rendered":"

An introduction to a new series on the International Telecommunications Union’s latest assessment of the extent to which countries worldwide are successfully becoming Information Societies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Earlier this week the International Telecommunications Union<\/a> (ITU) released the latest annual Measuring the Information Society <\/i>(MIS report), in which it highlights key ICT developments worldwide and tracks the cost and affordability of ICT services. Now in its fifth publication, the MIS report is considered one of the most comprehensive assessments of ICT infrastructure and uptake, which forms the ICT Development Index (IDI) and in the latest edition was used to rank 157 countries.<\/p>\n

Over the next few weeks, ICT Pulse will publish a short series of posts highlighting the performance of the Caribbean countries that has been included in this IDI assessment. However, to launch this new initiative, and to begin to provide some context for what is to come, presented below are select findings globally from the latest MIS report:<\/p>\n

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250 million additional people came online in 2012<\/i><\/p>\n

Republic of Korea tops ICT ranking for 3rd year in a row<\/i><\/p>\n

By end 2013 40% of the world will be online \u2013 but 1.1 billion households \u2013 or 4.4 billion people \u2013 remain unconnected<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>Mobile broadband is now more affordable than fixed broadband<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>Almost the whole world is now within reach of mobile cellular service<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>30% of the world\u2019s young population are \u2018digital natives\u2019<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>Broadband is getting faster; 2Mbps now most popular basic package<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>Telco operator CAPEX peaked in 2008; despite economic upturn investment levels have not returned<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>By end 2013 there will be 6.8 billion total mobile-cellular subscriptions<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>An estimated 2.7 billion people will also be connected to the Internet<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>All countries in the IDI top 30 are high-income countries, underlining the strong link between income and ICT progress.<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>Between 2008-2012 fixed-broadband prices fell by 82 per cent overall<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>Of a total of 145 million young Internet users in the developed countries, 86.3 per cent are estimated to be digital natives, compared with less than half of the 503 million young Internet users in the developing worl<\/i><\/p>\n

In 2012 there were around 363 million digital natives out of a world population of around 7 billion<\/i><\/p>\n

Almost 80 per cent of households globally had a TV<\/i><\/p>\n

<\/i>An estimated 1.1 billion households worldwide are not yet connected to the Internet.<\/i><\/p>\n

At the end of 2011, there were almost twice as many active mobile-broadband as fixed-broadband subscriptions.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/i>\u00a0(Source:\u00a0 ITU<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\"122_ITU_MIS-REPORT_C-1_V4-B\"<\/p>\n

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Image credits: \u00a0Master Isolated images (FreeDigitalPhotos.net<\/a>);\u00a0\u00a0ITU<\/a>\u00a0(infographic)<\/em><\/p>\n

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