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The ITU released its latest edition of Measuring the Information Society. The report includes the ICT Development Index, aimed to capture the level of advancement of ICTs in more than 150 countries worldwide. The Index also measures the global digital divide and examines how it has developed in recent years.
The report features a new ICT Price Basket, which combines fixed, mobile and broadband tariffs for 2008 into one measure and compares it across countries.
Here are some key findings:
ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Touré announced in New York that worldwide mobile subscribers are likely to reach the 4 billion mark before the end of this year. Touré was speaking in New York where he attended the UN Private Sector Forums addressing the global food crisis and the role of technological innovation in meeting the Millennium Development Goals.
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