[Chapter-delegates] ISOC-OECD-UNESCO Study presented @WSIS Forum 2012, Clear correlation between local content, Internet development and access prices

[Constance Bommelaer]

Dear Members,

 

We are happy to announce the publication of a joint ISOC-OECD-UNESCO report
on "The Relationship between local content, Internet development and access
prices". The report was presented today at the WSIS Forum in Geneva by Janis
Karklins, UNESCO's Assistant Director-General, Markus Kummer, the Internet
Society's Vice-President for Public Policy, and Taylor Reynolds, Senior
Economist at the OECD. 

 

This important study finds that the three elements are inter-related and
likely feed into each other in a virtuous circle: (i) better connectivity is
significantly related to higher levels of local digital content creation. In
essence, countries with more Internet infrastructure (at all income levels)
are also the countries producing more local digital content as measured by
Wikipedia entries and by web pages under a given country-code top-level
domain; (ii) countries with more international connectivity have lower
domestic broadband prices and countries with better domestic infrastructure
have lower international bandwidth prices. The inter-linkages between the
different elements lead to three key lines of policy considerations evolving
out this research: (i) Fostering content development, (ii) Expanding
connectivity, and (iii) Promoting Internet access competition. 

 

The Internet Society will issue a press release this week to spread the news
more broadly, but we wanted to share this information with our community as
soon as possible. The full report is available here:
http://www.internetsociety.org/localcontent 

 

Best regards,

            

Constance Bommelaer

Director, Public Policy

The Internet Society

www.isoc.org <http://www.isoc.org/>  

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