In February 2009, ITU and UNCTAD will present a report on ICT Statistics on behalf of the Partnership during the Commission's 40th session in New York. The report informs of the significant progress made by the Partnership to improve the availability of internationally comparable statistics on ICT and will introduce the revision of the core list of ICT indicators. The revision will be detailed in another background document.
The revision of the core list is a response to the Commission's encouragement of the Partnership to continue work to improve and update the list of indicators, especially in view of measuring the use of ICT in education, in government, the contribution of ICT to economic growth and social development, and barriers to use of ICT.
At the UNSC in 2007, chief statisticians from around the world had congratulated the Partnership for its work and for being an example of successful cooperation between international organizations. They endorsed the core list of ICT indicators, and encouraged countries to use it in their data collection programmes, and the Partnership to help build capacities for the collection of ICT data.