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In May 2010, at the WSIS Forum, the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development launched the Measuring the WSIS Targets – A statistical framework Report, as a response to the WSIS call to develop indicators and produce official statistics for measuring the information society. The framework document includes a concrete list of indicators to monitor the 10 WSIS targets, which range from connecting villages, schools, and health centers to developing online content and
providing people with ICT access. It is expected to become the main reference document for the final review of the achievements made towards meeting the WSIS targets in 2015. Work on the WSIS Targets, which is carried out through the Partnership’s Task Group on Measuring the WSIS Targets (TG WSIS) is in line with the overall work and objectives of the Partnership, which is to improve the
availability and quality of ICT data and indicators, particularly in developing countries.

Focusing on the WSIS+10 review process, this session will provide an update of the Partnership’s work on measuring the WSIS targets and present concrete examples of progress made towards monitoring the targets. It will also highlight gaps that still need to be addressed in monitoring the WSIS Targets. In particular, the session will show initiatives related to, and progress made in tracking Targets 2 and 7 on ICTs in education. A presentation by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) will
present new ICT in education data collected in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2011. The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will provide the results of the WSIS survey carried out in 2011 in five African countries. 

Chair: Ms Susan Teltscher, ITU, Switzerland
Panellists :
• Mr Peter Wallet, UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Canada
• Mr Makane Faye, ECA, Ethiopia
• Mr Christoph Legutko, INTEL

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