The First Mile

Supported by the SSHRC-funded First Nations Innovation Project

Please share your links, comments, and suggestions for First Mile tools and indicators. This includes links to blog posts, journal articles, reports, and news about assessing broadband adoption and impact. The focus is on community-level (as opposed to individual or household) indicators.

We hope this information will be helpful to communities interested in taking on First Mile development initiatives.

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Name	Description	Link
International Journal of Communication. Broadband Adoption. Introduction: Defining and Measuring Meaningful Broadband Adoption	US-based. Critique narrow quantitative measures and argue for the need for more holistic indicators.	Here
10th World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Meeting (WTIM)	Bangkok, Thailand, from 25-27 September 2012. Hosted by the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology (MICT) of Thailand. The meeting attracted around 300 participants from 70 Member States, 14 public and private organizations (including academia) and 13 regional and international organizations. The meeting focused on the following main topics: national coordination of ICT statistics; ICT infrastructure and access; revenue and investment; quality of service; data traffic; wireless broadband; digital broadcasting; the WSIS+10 review; e-commerce; ICT household access and individual ICT use; and gender and ICT indicators.	Link to final report
Measuring the Information Society (MIS) Report 2012	ITU’s two benchmarking tools to monitor information society developments worldwide: The ICT Development Index and the ICT Price Basket. The ICT Development Index (IDI) ranks 155 countries’ performance with regard to information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and uptake. The ICT Price Basket (IPB) is a unique metric that tracks and compares the cost and affordability of ICT services in more than 160 countries globally. This year’s report proposes a new methodology to measure the global telecommunication capacity.	Report and key highlights
ICF Master Class: Building the Community of the 21st Century	ICF Master Class identifies what the 21st Century community needs to be globally competitive. It highlights obstacles and potential solutions. The class includes a session on 'Indicators for the Intelligent Community', which include how ICT factors link to community and economic development.	Link