• List of attendees
• Programme for Meeting

Session 1: Introduction and opening remarks

by Mr Dennis Trewin, Australian Statistician and Dr Paul Cheung, Chief Statistician, Singapore

Session 2: A user perspective of statistical requirements

Keynote address by Ms Fay Holthuyzen, Executive Director, Telecommunications Division, Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts (DCITA), Australia

Session 3: Country presentations on current collection activity and future sessions

This session involves presentations from all countries summarising the IT&T statistics available in their country, the collections currently in place and plans for future developments. The purpose of the session is to identify similarities and differences so that countries might learn from each other and so that the group might identify areas for future discussion and development. Delegates should provide a broad description of their country's activities.

• Australia:
• ABS Business and Government Use of IT Surveys
• ABS Household Use of IT Survey (122KB)
• ABS IT and Telecommunications Industry Survey

• Hong Kong, China

• Japan

Annex 1	Annex 2	Annex 3
Annex 4	Form (137KB)

• Republic of Korea (169KB)

• New Zealand

• Singapore (111KB), Department of Statistics

• Singapore, Infocomm Development Authority

Session 4: Frameworks for the collection of IT&T statistics

This session discusses underlying frameworks for the collection and presentation of statistics in the IT&T field. The session is divided into several components to draw out the main issues relating to frameworks for statistical work and the setting of statistical standards.

• International Standards for IT&T Statistics: OECD work (118KB)
• (Annexes) (122KB), Ms Sheridan Roberts, ABS Director of Science & Technology Statistics Developments

• IT&T Satellite Accounts - a possible new direction (102KB), Ms Luisa Ryan, ABS National Accounts Research Section

• Australia

• Hong Kong, china

• Republic of Korea (136KB)

Session 5: Collection details: scope, methodology, data items

This session builds on the previous sessions and is intended to allow countries to describe their current surveys so that comparisons across countries can be made. A major aim of the session is to identify the data items being used by countries and to discuss where these have been successful or otherwise.

• Hong Kong, China

• New Zealand

• Republic of Korea (583KB) (Form - 114KB)

Session 6: Common data sets

Using information presented in Sessions 3, 4 and 5, participants identify those areas where there are common threads and those areas where it seems important for countries in the Group to work together to agree on consistent definitions and standards.

Break-out groups to be established to examine information from earlier sessions and report back to the whole Group with proposals for ongoing work.

Session 7: Future work by the group

This session will consider the future of the group and its mode of operation.

Session 8: Wrap up and close

Report of the Meeting