ICT and Human Development: Towards Building a Composite Index for Asia

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ICT and Human Development: Towards Building a Composite Index for Asia

June 17, 2015

This quantitative study was undertaken as an exercise for the preparation of UNDP’s Regional Human Development Report ‘Promoting ICT for Human Development in Asia: Realising the Millennium Development Goals.’ The study concludes that while availability or supply-side indicators of ICT are undoubtedly important from the human development perspective, more information needs to be gathered on access, types of applications, characteristics of users, content, etc.

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