ITU Resources of Interest

Downloadable files have recently been made available by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU):

The Global Information Society: A Statistical View--seeks to define the information society through ICT statistics. 

'Measuring Information and Communication Technology Availability in Villages and Rural Areas'--attempts to measure one of WSIS' ten targets, and that is "to connect villages with ICTs and to establish community access points" by 2015.

The ITU website also features an updated World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Database 2007, 11th Edition (June 2008). This resource, available on CD-ROM and via online subscription, contains time series data for the years 1960, 1965, 1970 and annually from 1975-2006. Telecommunications statistics cover telephone network size and dimension, mobile services, quality of service, traffic, staff, tariffs, revenue and investment.