The objectives are:

1. To strengthen the capacity of countries in the Americas to produce ICT indicators and statistics according to international standards and methodologies,
2. An overview of the Work on ICT measurements undertaken globally by ICT Data and Statistics; The 14 new ICT Indicators and the new IDI Methodology; Main groups of telecommunication/ICT indicators collected; The questionnaire, timelines and data collection, including the ITU Manual
3. For the main indicators required to monitor ICT developments, the workshop will discuss the definitions, methodologies and data gaps in the Americas. The focus will be on the indicators related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the revised set of IDI indicators; Existing mechanisms of national coordination of ICT statistics
4. To communicate to official ICT data producers in the Americas the revision of the IDI and the data that will be required for its calculation. Support efforts of countries in the Americas to meet the deadline of the next ITU questionnaire for the collection of the revised set of IDI indicators.
   

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Organizers​​
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Host​​ Caribbean Telecommunication Union (CTU) Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (TATT)