1、The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Communication Statistics Programme Diane Stukel, UIS,ITU Global Indicators Workshop on Community Access to ICTs Mexico City 16-19 November 2004,Semi-autonomous body whose mandate is to support statistical activities of UNESCO in areas of education, Science &
2、 Technology, Culture & Communications Formally established in November 1999 with new director: Denise Lievesley Statutes and financial arrangements agreed by UNESCO General Conference Have our own governing board but receive a regular budget from UNESCO in a special account Relocated in Montreal in
3、September 2001 with mostly new staff,UNESCO Institute for Statistics Who are we ?,Collection and dissemination of cross-nationally comparable data on education, science establishment and maintenance of international classifications Analysis and interpretation of international data (often in partners
4、hip with others) Statistical capacity building within countries for users and producers of data,Functions of UIS,COMMUNICATION/CULTURE STATISTICS PROGRAMME- HISTORICAL BACKDROP,Formerly ran battery of six international surveys sent annually or biennially to 189 Member States; CULTURE: museums, libra
5、ries, films and cinemas, book production;COMMUNICATION/CULTURE: printed press, broadcasting (radio/ TV). Mainly limited to infrastructure aspects from administrative sources; nothing on access, usage, impact. Collected from national statistical offices as secondary data: plagued with data quality pr
6、oblems! Decided to suspend the collections (temporarily?) to take a fresh look with a view towards renewal,COMMUNICATION/CULTURE STATISTICS PROGRAMME WHY THE NEED FOR RENEWAL?,Two main reasons: A) Problems with past data: data quality issues (data discrepancies, timeliness and issues of missing data
7、) and UIS instruments/ questionnaires out-of-date and not user-friendly. B) Data collections limited to answering questions on institutional and infrastructure aspects; what about access, usage and impact? Need to consider broader spectrum of issues! Building new Communication statistics programme t
8、o promote evidence-based national policies! Extensive consultation + long-term strategy paper being drafted + new programme to be launched in 2005 Meanwhile a little about current UIS initiatives,World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) 2003: MEASUREMENT SIDE EVENT + BIRTH OF PARTNERSHIP,Two-d
9、ay WSIS side event jointly organized with UIS, UNECE, UNCTAD, ITU, OECD, EurostatUIS sponsored session with a dual focus of “ICT c) related statistical capacity building activitiesResults to be fed back to WSIS 2005 (phase II),RECENT UIS DEVELOPMENT WORK,RETOOLING UIS SURVEYS ON BROADCASTING AND PRE
10、SSUIS retooling two old surveys: press main questionnaire to be launched in spring 2005,Radio and Television Receivers for a Selection of Countries Source: UIS 1997,UIS COMMUNICATION STATISTICS PROGRAMME: WHAT NICHE SHOULD WE FILL?,UNESCO/UIS lead UN agency for communication; ITU for telecom - impor
11、tant to complement, not duplicate ITU, UNCTAD, OECD have own niches for ICT data collection UIS niche: ICTs AND EDUCATION! Reasons?i) WSIS POA Indicative Goals #B.6.b and #B.6.g call for monitoring!ii) Education & Communication cross-cutting for UNESCO/ UISiii) Unique niche for UIS relative to other
12、 international agencies,RECENT UIS DEVELOPMENT WORK,ICT work to be completed in 2005,Computer Usage of Grade 4 Students Source: PIRLS 2001,Internet Access of Grade 8 Students at School and Home Source: TIMSS-R 1999,RECENT UIS DEVELOPMENT WORK,ICT COMPONENT ADDED TO UIS EDUCATION SURVEY opportune tim
13、e to add ICTs Collecting from MOE within countries, therefore limited to information on ICT infrastructure But also embedding questions on ICT literacy & usage in UIS-sponsored Literacy (LAMP) Household Surveys,RECENT UIS PUBLICATIONS,1) UIS Statistical Report “Measuring and Monitoring the Informati
14、on and Knowledge Societies: A Statistical Challenge” for WSIS 2003; part of UNESCO seriesContent: stocktaking of global ICT indicators, discussion on data quality issues, suggestions of data to collect in the future Report available from UIS web site at: http:/www.uis.unesco.org/ev.php?ID=5504_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC2) Report on Multilingualism on the Internet commissioned to Indiana University to be completed for WSIS 20053) Second report on Multilingualism commissioned to FUNREDES with Latin American perspective to be completed for WSIS 2005 Motivation: WSIS Plan of Action Indicative Goal # B.6.i,
