Academics and practitioners alike have given considerable attention to the measurement of "information" for policy, development and investment decisions. However, this is only possible if we can define what information is and how we can measure it. For the measurement many "proxies" or indicators have been developed using aggregate statistics and the application of largely quantitative methods to gain insights into e.g. e-Readiness, e-Leadership or the "digital divide". Taylor (2006) provides an introduction into the history of these proxies starting in the early 1960s and the ongoing search for different information age indicators which were subsequently called information technology indicators including telecommunications, the internet, broadcasting and computing technology.
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