Are there any sub-national indexes available?
Similarly, the DOI can be calculated for regions, towns and provinces within a country, nation or state, to assess different levels of access within an economy. Measurements of the DOI within a country can be used to track the domestic digital divide or urban/rural disparities in access not just in levels of access (where it is usually assumed that urban access will always be greater than rural access), but in types of access, with mobile or satellite technologies often used for more remote rural areas, in preference to fixed line infrastructure. The fixed/mobile split within the DOI means that the DOI can be readily used to assess differences in the type of access (Figure 2). The Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity has launched a promising project to trial the use of the DOI to measure digital opportunity and access to ICTs across the Republic of Korea.
