ITU / MIS 2015 REPORT

The Republic of Korea ranked at the top of International Telecommunication Union’s Information and Communications Technology Development Index (IDI) in 2015, a composite measurement that ranks 167 countries according to their level of ICT access, use and skills. ITUTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:49
• Production Date: 30 November 2015
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION - ITU
• Subject Topical: COMMUNICATIONS; DEVELOPMENT; INTERNET
• Geographic Subject: REPUBLIC OF KOREA
• MAMS Id: 1521358
• Parent Id: 1521358
• Alternate Title: unifeed151130b

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STORY: ITU / MIS 2015 REPORT
TRT: 01:49
SOURCE: ITUTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 NOVEMBER 2015, HIROSHIMA, JAPAN

Shotlist

1. Various shots, Hiroshima GVs
2. Wide shot, podium
3. Med shot, ITU Secretary-General
4. UPSOUND (English) moderator of the ceremony
“The top award goes to Republic of Korea.”
5. Pan right, panel applauding
6. Various shots, Korean rep receiving the award
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Brahima Sanou, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau:
“The just adopted Sustainable Development Goals recognize the crucial role of information and communication technologies, but more importantly behind all those figures, statistics and indexes, it is about human life.”
8. Wide shot, ceremony
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Brahima Sanou, Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau:
“And it is about how we are using ICTs to alleviate poverty, to change the life of ordinary people. How are we putting in the hands of ordinary people a very powerful tool to make their own development, that of their community and that of their nations.”
10. Zoom out, laureates from Republic of Korea, Costa Rica and Bahrain on the podium

Storyline

The Republic of Korea ranked at the top of International Telecommunication Union’s Information and Communications Technology Development Index (IDI) in 2015, a composite measurement that ranks 167 countries according to their level of ICT access, use and skills.

Republic of Korea is closely followed by Denmark and Iceland, in second and third place.

The IDI top 30 ranking includes countries from Europe and high-income nations from other regions including Australia, Bahrain, Barbados, Canada, Hong Kong (China), Japan, Macao (China), New Zealand, Singapore and the United States. Almost all countries surveyed improved their IDI ranking this year.
The report identifies a group of ‘most dynamic countries’, which have recorded above-average improvements in their IDI rank over the past five years. These include (in order of greatest change in IDI ranking): Costa Rica, Bahrain, Lebanon, Ghana, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Suriname, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus and Oman.

The IDI is the core feature of the ITU’s flagship annual Measuring the Information Society (MIS) Report. The Report reveals that 3.2 billion people are now online, representing 43.4% of the global population, while mobile-cellular subscriptions have reached almost 7.1 billion worldwide, with over 95% of the global population now covered by a mobile-cellular signal.

The launch of the 2015 edition of the MIS Report and the award ceremony were held today (30 Nov) in Hiroshima, Japan, on the first day of the World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium (WTIS) 2015.

The Measuring the Information Society Report is widely recognized as the repository of the world’s most reliable and impartial global data and analysis on the state of global ICT development, and is extensively relied upon by governments, international organizations, development banks and private sector analysts worldwide.