Third Iberoamerican Workshop of Information Society Indicators

The Third Iberoamerican Workshop of Information Society Indicators will be carried out on September 29 and 30, 2005. This meeting has the aim of making a specific progress to the “Lisboa Manual- Guidebook for the information society statistic indicators production”. The Lisboa Manual pretends to be turned into an orientating document for the indicators production, elaborated from the “Matrix of Information Society Indicators”. The most relevant institutions, indicators and actually existing observation methologies inside the information society will be released to enrich the manual. This survey will let analyze not only the potentials but the indicators boundaries/ limits and the variables in usage too and the main technical and institutional obstacles as well, which is necessary to improve the measurements.

 

The workshop is organized by the RICYT and the Superior Institute of Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE) of Portugal, with the support of UMIC- Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento of Potugal, the Observatório da Ciência e do Ensino Superior (OCES) of Portugal and the National Institute of Statistics (INE) of Portugal.

The Third Iberoamerican Workshop of Information Society Indicators goes on with the series initiated in Lisboa in 2001 and 2003. Under the topic “Indicators for the Information Society: benchmarking and good practices”, the objective of this meeting is the creation of places for information exchange about information society indicators production. In that way, experts from outstanding institutions such as the REDES Center, CEPAL, REULATEL/ ICA, OCDE, Eurostat, ONU-ORBICOM, UNESCO and OCES, UMIC and ISCTE from Portugal, will be invited to display their work. This event will also be attended by researchers or members of different institutions and programmes interested in the movement towards the information society, which will make comments in reference to the showed information.