The need to develop new indicators to measure the effectiveness of decisions taken by governments to end the crisis, has been put in evidence at the ministerial meeting on Policies and Metrics on Information Society, held in Madrid.
The meeting was organized by the Spanish presidency of the European Union attended by representatives of the EU, OECD and the International Telecommunication Union, ECLAC (Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean) and experts in metrics that have adopted " Madrid Document "which sets international cooperation for the development of economic indicators.
In a press conference, the head of the Unit of Economic Analysis and Statistics of the Directorate General Information Society and Media EU, Lucilla Sioli, the office manager for the development of ITU Telecom, Sami Al Basherer and division chief of integrity and innovation in the OECD, Cristian Vergez, highlighted the timeliness of this meeting.
They explained that at this time of economic crisis indicators are an essential tool for policy making to help overcome the crisis.
A journalists' questions, noted that measurements performed in different countries are fully comparable as they are reflected always the same data, although there are some difficulties in new subjects such as mobile internet, networks or green technologies, where need to refine procedures.
Secretary of State for Telecommunications and Information Society Francisco Ros, said that in the Madrid Declaration states that governments shall meet at least once a year to further coordinate measuring systems and development of new indicators.
Collected is used primarily official statistical sources, but, where necessary, officers will not be used with particular attention to the reliability and quality of results.
At the meeting, reminded the new European Digital Agenda just to approve the EU and Francisco Ros noted that its development is a priority for Europe despite the economic situation.
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