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Measuring the Information Society 

 The ICT Development Index 2009 Edition

 http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/idi/2009/index.html
 
The latest edition of Measuring the Information Society features the new 
ITU ICT Development Index. 

The new Index captures the level of advancement of ICTs in more than 150 
countries worldwide and compares progress made between 2002 and 2007. It 
also measures the global digital divide and examines how it has developed 
in recent years. 

The report also features a new ICT Price Basket, which combines fixed, 
mobile and broadband tariffs for 2008 into one measure and compares it 
across countries. 

The analytical report is complemented by a series of statistical tables 
providing country-level data for all indicators included in the Index.

ITU offers to the general public free online access to the Adobe® PDF 
format of the publication "Measuring the Information Society - The ICT 
Development Index, 2009 Edition" (excluding Annex 5). 

Click here (revised 16 March 2009):
http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/publications/idi/2009/material/IDI2009_w5.pdf



Table 4.2: ICT 'Development' Index (IDI) (2002 and 2007)

Economy & Rank(2007)

Sweden 1
Korea (Rep.) 2
Denmark 3
Netherlands 4
Iceland 5
Norway 6
Luxembourg 7
Switzerland 8
Finland 9
United Kingdom 10
Hong Kong, China 11
Japan 12
Germany 13
Australia 14
Singapore 15
New Zealand 16
United States 17
Ireland 18
Canada 19
Austria 20
Macao, China 21
Italy 22
France 23
Belgium 24
Taiwan, China 25
Estonia 26
Spain 27
Slovenia 28
Israel 29
Malta 30
Portugal 31


Table 4.4: IDI 'access' sub-index (2007 and 2002) 

Economy & Rank(2007)

Sweden 1
Luxembourg 2
Hong Kong, China 3
Iceland 4
Netherlands 5
Switzerland 6
Germany 7
Denmark 8
Macao, China 9
United Kingdom 10
Singapore 11
Norway 12
Taiwan, China 13
Korea (Rep.) 14
Canada 15
Ireland 16
Austria 17
Italy 18
Australia 19
Finland 20
Belgium 21
United States 22
France 23
Estonia 24
New Zealand 25
Malta 26
Japan 27
Israel 28
Slovenia 29
Spain 30

Table 4.5: IDI 'use' sub-index (2007 and 2002) 

Economy & Rank(2007)

Korea (Rep.) 1
Luxembourg 2
Sweden 3
Japan 4
Norway 5
Netherlands 6
Denmark 7
Switzerland 8
Finland 9
Singapore 10
Iceland 11
Australia 12
Hong Kong, China 13
United Kingdom 14
New Zealand 15
United States 16
Austria 17
Taiwan, China 18
Ireland 19
Germany 20
Canada 21
France 22
Belgium 23
United Arab Emirates 24
Italy 25
Spain 26
Estonia 27
Macao, China 28
Slovenia 29
Portugal 30
Israel 31

Table 4.6: IDI 'skills' sub-index (2007 and 2002)

Economy & Rank(2007)

Greece 1
Finland 2
Korea (Rep.) 3
Slovenia 4
Denmark 5
Cuba 6
New Zealand 7
Norway 8
Sweden 9
Iceland 10
United States 11
Lithuania 12
Australia 13
Latvia 14
Ukraine 15
Italy 16
Spain 17
Hungary 18
Poland 19
Canada 20
Estonia 21
Belarus 22
Belgium 23
Netherlands 24
Ireland 25
Japan 26
Russia 27
United Kingdom 28
France 29
Macao, China 30

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Cheers people
Stephen Loosley
Victoria, Australia