National Coordination for ICT Statistics: Philippines

Presented by: Alana Gorospe Ramos9th Meeting of the Expert Group on Telecommunications/ICT Indicators

6th Meeting of the Expert Group on Households16-19 October 2018

Outline

• Stakeholder ecosystem

• Cooperation mechanisms• Inter-Agency Committee on ICT Statistics

• DICT, NTC and the PSA

• Issues remaining

• Way forward

• Coordination for the National ICT Household Survey

High Demand for ICT Statistics

• International

• Sustainable Development Goals

• National Plans

• Philippine Development Plans

• National ICT Ecosystem Framework 2018-2022E-Government Masterplan 2022

• National Broadband Plan

• Cybersecurity Development Plan

• Policy-making

• Key legislation in Congress of the Philippines

• Benchmarking

• ICT Development Index (ITU)

• E-Government Development Index (UN)

Low Supply

Laying the Foundations• Philippine Digital Strategy

2011-2015

• Philippine Statistical Development Plan 2018-2023

• Chapter 25 - Information Society

• National ICT Ecosystem Framework (drafting)

Inter-Agency Statistical Committees

• Republic Act 10625, Section 10 mandates creation of IASCs;

• Creation of IACs decentralizes the statistical system• To coordinate and resolve agency and sectoral concerns on statistical matters;

• Serve as a venue/forum for discussion and resolutions of statistical issues raised by users, producers and other stakeholders of sectoral and agency-specific statistics;

• 27 sector committees to date including the IAC on ICT Statistics (IAC-ICTS)

• Inter-Agency Committee on the Sustainable Development Goals• Monitoring of six SDG indicators

• Inter-Agency Task Force on Big Data

Inter-Agency Committee on ICT Statistics

• Inter-Agency Committee for ICT Statistics• Concepts, Definitions and Standards

• Strategies for ICT statistics generation

• Vehicle for private sector participation

• IAC-ICTS Members

• Public - Department of ICT (Chair), PSA (Co-Chair), NTC, Departments of Trade and Industry, Science and Technology, Interior and Local Government, Education, Commission on Higher Education and

• Private - Philippine Chamber of Telecommunications Operators and the IT-Business Process Association of the Philippines

Inter-Agency Coordination• Philippine Statistics Authority

• ICT indicators• Source: Surveys and censuses

• National Telecommunications Commission • ICT supply side data• Source: Private ICT service

providers

• Department of ICT • E-Government indicators• Project data• Dissemination platforms

ICT Knowledge

Platform

(DICT)

Surveys (PSA)

Censuses (PSA)

Admin Data (NTC,

DICT)

Project Data

(DICT)e.g. big data

Philippine Statistics Authority

• ICT Indicators from Censuses and Surveys• Survey on ICT (establishment survey, 2016)• Family Income and Expenditures Survey (2015)• Decennial Census of Population and Housing (2010,

2015)• Labor Force Survey (2018)• Functional Literacy, Education and Mass Media Survey

(2013)

National Telecommunications Commission

- Reports and data from the private sector

- Telecommunications companies

- ISP Providers- Broadcast

companies - Cable providers- Content providers- Others

- Annual basis

- Data consolidator- Data from flagship projects:

- Free Wifi Project- National Government Portal- Tech4ED

- Information System Strategic Plans of government agencies

- Government ICT resources (ICT budget and expenditure, outsourcedICT services,leased ICT resources and ICT manpower)

- Web presence of NGAs, GOCCs and LGUs

Department of Information and Communications Technology

Benefits of Coordination and Collaboration

• Maximize knowledge-sharing and resources• Data-sharing among agencies under an open data framework• Knowledge-sharing

• ICT expertise• Statistical and survey expertise• Sector expertise

• Public-Private Partnerships• Innovative pilot projects

• Sharing of international and local experiences• Lead to best practice models or strategies

Issues Remaining• Private sector not wholly on-board• New indicators lack data (e.g. FTTH subscribers)• Data on ICT diffusion in other sectors is lacking e.g.

culture• Monitoring processes need improvement:

• Data collection not synchronized with monitoring/reporting schedules

• Lacking a system for collecting ICT administrative data from national government agencies

Way Forward• Strengthening inter-agency collaboration in public sector

• Advocacy for ICT statistics

• Need to incentivize private sector to provide data• NTC to lead in strengthening linkages with the private sector• DICT and NTC to organize consultations with private sector

• Ensure success of the 2019 National ICT Household Survey• Coordinate closely with the PSA• Address data gaps on ICT access, usage and skills and E-commerce

• Update national ICT plans and policies• Keep abreast of emerging ICT trends and new indicators

• Centralization of ICT statistics in the ICT Knowledge Portal• Formerly the ICT Statistics Portal supported by the ITU in 2011

• Leveraging statistics for evidence-based decision-making• Mixing qualitative approaches with statistics to make the latter more meaningful• Need for more impact and evaluation studies using ICT statistics as bedrock

Coordination for the 2019 National ICT Household Survey

National ICT Household Survey

• First ever Philippine ICT Household Survey, to be conducted in 2019

• 43,000 Households in 17 regions

• Objectives• To gather ICT data at household level to support the monitoring of

performance indicators;

• To gather critical data on ICT supply and demand towards improvement of public service delivery as well as growth of potential markets in the digital economy (e.g. e-commerce);

• To provide a national baseline for core ICT indicators;

• To develop survey toolkits and field-tested questionnaires for future surveys.

National ICT Household Survey

• Coverage of indicators• Sustainable Development Goals • ITU Core Household indicators • ITU E-commerce indicators • OECD E-commerce indicators• National Broadband Plan• Cybersecurity Plan• E-Government Master Plan

• Disaggregation• Urban-Rural• Sex, Age• Civil, Employment status• Educational attainment

From Concept to Reality

IAC-ICTS

Concept, Indicators, Budget

DICTSurvey Proponent

PSAReview and

endorsement (technical)

DBMReview and

endorsement (financial)

Congressional Approval

DICT

General Appropriations

Roles of Agencies• Department of Information and Communications Technology

• National Coordinator• Project Management Team (Central Office)• Regional Coordinator (DICT Regional Offices)• Questionnaire design• Advocacy and publicity

• Philippine Statistics Authority• Clearance of survey instruments• Generation of sampling units and households

• Department of Local Government• Coordination and support at LGU level

• Government Survey Entity • Training• Data-Gathering and Processing• Analysis

Implementation Process

DICT(National

Coordinator)

Survey Entity

Luzon Visayas

DICT Regional Offices

Mindanao

Inter-Agency on ICT Statistics, PSA,

DILG

Status of Implementation

• 2018• Finalizing arrangements with government survey firm• Finalizing survey instruments after series of consultations• PSA to generate the sampling areas and location of households• Drafting of field operations guidelines for DICT Regional Offices

• 2019• Trainings• Data-gathering• Data-analysis• Report writing• National and regional disseminations

Dissemination Platforms

• Specific to ICT statistics• Established thru ITU

support in 2011• Managed by the DICT• Undergoing rebranding

ICT Knowledge Portalhttp://dict.gov.ph/ictstatistics/

Dissemination Platforms

• Open Government Partnership (2011)

• Cross-sector data• Established thru WB support in 2014• Managed by the Open Data Team• 54 National agencies• More than 3,000 data sets

Open Data Philippineshttps://data.gov.ph/

Dissemination Platforms

• PSA's Open Data Portal• Statistical data collected and

compiled by the PSA and made available to the general public

• Datasets on various statistical subject matter with corresponding metadata

OpenSTAThttp://openstat.psa.gov.ph/

Thank you very much!alana.ramos@dict.gov.ph