On September 29, 2020, a re-meeting of the 11th meeting of the Expert Group on Telecommunication / ICT Indicators and the 8th meeting of the Expert Group on ICT in Households Indicators was held in the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics via videoconference.
The purpose of today's meeting was to announce the conclusions of a joint meeting held on 14 September this year, which was attended by about 300 participants to discuss the Secretariat's proposals for a possible release of the ICT Development Index in 2020.
On behalf of the State Committee of the Republic of Uzbekistan on Statistics, today's re-meeting was attended by employees of the Department of Macroeconomic Indicators and National Accounts, the Department of Service Statistics and the Department of Living Standards Statistics and Population Surveys and the Department of Price Statistics.
From 14 to 18 September this year, the 11th meeting of the expert group on telecommunication / ICT indicators and the 8th meeting of the expert group on ICT indicators in households were held. The purpose of these meetings was to review the contributions received from participants in the online discussion forums of the Expert Group on Telecommunication / ICT Indicators and the Expert Group on Household Indicators in the current working period and to finalize the topics discussed.
The Expert Group on Telecommunication / ICT Indicators meeting discussed topics such as 5G metrics, ICT service prices, quality of service and international roaming. In addition, the revised International Telecommunication Union Handbook for the collection of administrative data in the field of telecommunications / ICT in all ITU languages was formally presented.
The Expert Group on Household Indicators meeting discussed topics such as measuring ICT skills and how to measure the number of Internet users. The revised International Telecommunication Union Guidelines for Measuring ICT Access and Use at the Household and Individual Level in all ITU languages were formally presented.
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