Information and Communication Technologies

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Information and Communication Technologies

• Measuring Use
• Fred Gault
• Statistics Canada
• 30.09.99

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INTRODUCTION

• TOOLS
• Frameworks and Strategies
• DEFINITIONS OR LISTS
• Comparable Observables
• USE SURVEYS
• Industry, Households and Public Sector
• USE OF THE INFORMATION
• Public and Private Sector, the Public

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TOOLS

• AN OBJECTIVE - an example
• To develop useful indicators and a framework to
  tie them together into a coherent picture of
  science and technology or, information and
  communication technology activities in Canada
  or, South Africa

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TOOLS

• A FRAMEWORK -
• For a Knowledge Based Society
• Measures
• Activities, Linkages and Outcomes
• Knowledge
• Generation, Transmission and Use
• Example Statistics Canada (1998), Science and
  Technology Activities and Impacts A Framework
  for a Statistical Information System, Catalogue
  88-523-XPB, Statistics Canada, Ottawa.

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TOOLS

• A STRATEGY
• What are the questions to be answered?
• Who needs the answers?
• How to build the system to answer them?
• What are the costs?
• How long will it take?
• Example Statistics Canada 1998, A Five-Year
  Strategic Plan for the Development of an
  Information System for Science and Technology,
  Catalogue 88-523-XPB, Statistics Canada, Ottawa.

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DEFINITIONS

• WHAT ARE THE PRODUCTS?
• DEFINITION OR A LIST?
• HOW TO COMPARE RESULTS?

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DEFINITIONS

• INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
• TECHNOLOGY SECTOR
• The industries that produce the products (goods
  and services) that support the electronic
  display, processing, storage, and transmission of
  information

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DEFINITIONS

• PRODUCT DEFINITIONS
• Concordance of the Central Product
  Classification (CPC) with ISIC.rev3 definition
• PROBLEMS
• ICT Products produced outside the ICT Sector?
• Non-ICT Products produced in the ICT Sector?

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DEFINITIONS

• COMPARISONS
• OECD Working Group on Indicators for the
  Information Society (WPIIS)
• - ICT Sector and Product Definitions
• - Content Sector and Product Definitions
• - Model Surveys and Core Tables
• - Electronic Commerce Definitions

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USE SURVEYS

• BUSINESS
• HOUSEHOLD
• GOVERNMENT

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USE SURVEYS

• BUSINESS SURVEYS
• - Cross-Economy with limited detail
• Uses the Capital Expenditure Survey
• - Industry Specific with much detail
• Wholesale and Retail Trade
• - As part of surveys on innovation or other
  activities

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USE SURVEYS

• HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS
• Labour Force Survey (5/6 sample)
• INDIVIDUALS
• General Social Survey for 2000

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USE SURVEYS

• PUBLIC SECTOR INSITITUTIONS
• For Information
• For Business
• For Service Delivery

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USE SURVEYS

• INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS
• OECD Core Tables
• Development of guidelines for the collection of
  statistics
• ITU interest in market related indicators
• WTO agreements on trade in ICT products

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USE OF INFORMATION

• INDUSTRY CANADA
• Promotion Programmes for Technologies
• Connecting Canadians (School Net)
• Promoting domestic e-business
• INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS
• PARLIAMENT

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MORE INFORMATION

• BROCHURE
• INNOVATION ANALYSIS BULLETIN
• INTERNET SITE
• http//www.statcan.ca/english/research/scilist.ht
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• gaultfd_at_statcan.ca

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