Enrico Calandro (PhD) is a Senior Research Fellow at Research ICT Africa. His academic research focuses on accessibility and affordability of ICT, broadband policy, internet governance and information controls.
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Measuring the information society in order to achieve development goals is a challenge and a necessity to ascertain progress made in terms of ICT sector development and socio-economic growth. Many intergovernmental, governments, non-profit and private organisations have sought to tackle the challenge through setting targets, defining indicators, and applying research methods to measure progress. Nevertheless, ambitious goals and targets relate mostly to the achievement of physical connectivity to ICT... more