India has been ranked 138th in the 2016 ICT Development Index out of a total of 175 countries.  The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) recently published the 2016 version of the Measuring the Information Society (MIS) report.  Africa was named as the worst performing region.

ICT Development Index (IDI)

• The ICT Development Index (IDI) is an index published by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union based on internationally agreed information and communication technologies (ICT) indicators.
• This makes it a valuable tool for bench marking the most important indicators for measuring the information society.
• The IDI is a standard tool that governments, operators, development agencies, researchers and others can use to measure the digital divide and compare ICT performance within and across countries.
• The ICT Development Index is based on 11 ICT indicators, grouped in three clusters: access, use and skills.
• The access sub-index captures ICT readiness, and includes five infrastructure and access indicators.
  • The use sub-index captures ICT intensity, and includes three ICT intensity and usage indicators.
  • The skills sub-index captures ICT capability or skills as indispensable input indicators.
  • It includes three proxy indicators and is given less weight in the computation of the IDI compared with the other two sub-indices.
  • Top Five Contries: South Korea, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, United Kingdom.