Why India fares poorly in digital indices

The International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) annual publication on ‘Measuring the Information Society’ presents 2011 rankings for two important ICT benchmarking tools, the ICT Development Index (IDI) and the ICT Price Basket (IBP). While the IDI captures access, usage, capability (skills to use) and impact, the IBP is a composite basket based on the price of fixed telephony, mobile cellular telephony, and fixed broadband Internet services, computed as a percentage of average income levels.

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