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Incorporating affordability, efficiency, and quality in the ICT development index: Implications for index building and ICT policymaking
The Information Society ( IF 3.0 ) Pub Date : 2019-12-24 , DOI: 10.1080/01972243.2019.1702601
Mohammad Afshar Ali 1, 2 , Khorshed Alam 1 , Brad Taylor 3
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Abstract

International Telecommunication Union’s ICT Development Index and related measures of a country’s ICT development maturity suffer from several limitations, including subjective estimation of the weights of individual indicators and sub-indices, use of inappropriate quantitative models, specification bias arising from the exclusion of potential predictors from the estimation models, and a failure to capture the disparities among different groups of countries. To overcome these problems and provide a more reliable measure of ICT development, this study develops the Modified ICT Maturity Level Index using the 2015 data of 166 countries. This index adds affordability, efficiency, and quality to the existing sub-indices of access, use, and skills. Sub-index and indicator weights are determined in an outcome-orientated way using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling. We find that affordability, quality, and efficiency significantly explain the variation in the level of maturity of ICT development in addition to the previously used dimensions of International Telecommunication Union’s ICT Development Index and modified ICT Development Index (mIDI) developed by Gerpott and Ahmadi, and that their explanatory power differ by a country’s level of economic development. The new index produces significantly different country rankings. This has important implications for ICT policy priorities and provides a measure of ICT development maturity less prone to the innocent or intentional distortion of such policy priorities.



中文翻译:

将可负担性,效率和质量纳入ICT发展指数中:对指数建立和ICT政策制定的影响

摘要

国际电信联盟的信息通信技术发展指数和一国信息通信技术发展成熟度的相关衡量标准受到若干限制,包括主观估计单个指标和子指数的权重,使用不合适的量化模型,由于将潜在预测因素排除在外而引起的规格偏差估计模型,以及未能捕捉到不同国家组之间的差异。为了克服这些问题并提供更可靠的ICT发展水平衡量方法,本研究使用166个国家/地区的2015年数据开发了ICT成熟度修订指数。该索引为访问,使用和技能的现有子索引增加了负担能力,效率和质量。使用偏最小二乘结构方程模型,以结果为导向确定子指数和指标权重。我们发现,除了以前使用的国际电信联盟的ICT发展指数和Gerpott和Ahmadi制定的经修改的ICT发展指数(mIDI)的维度之外,负担能力,质量和效率还可以很好地解释ICT发展成熟水平的变化,以及他们的解释力因一个国家的经济发展水平而异。新指数产生的国家排名明显不同。这对信通技术政策优先事项具有重要意义,并提供了衡量信通技术发展成熟度的一种手段,该方法不易受到此类政策优先权的无辜或故意扭曲。除了先前使用的国际电信联盟的ICT发展指数和Gerpott和Ahmadi制定的经修订的ICT发展指数(mIDI)维度之外,其效率和效率还可以很好地解释ICT发展成熟度的变化,并且它们的解释力也存在差异。国家的经济发展水平。新指数产生的国家排名明显不同。这对信通技术政策优先事项具有重要意义,并提供了衡量信通技术发展成熟度的一种手段,该方法不易受到此类政策优先权的无辜或故意扭曲。除了先前使用的国际电信联盟的ICT发展指数和Gerpott和Ahmadi制定的经修订的ICT发展指数(mIDI)维度之外,其效率和效率还可以很好地解释ICT发展成熟度的变化,并且它们的解释力也存在差异。国家的经济发展水平。新指数产生的国家排名明显不同。这对信通技术政策优先事项具有重要意义,并提供了衡量信通技术发展成熟度的一种手段,该方法不易受到此类政策优先权的无辜或故意扭曲。

更新日期:2019-12-24
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