بناء مؤشر مركب لقياس تكنولوجيا المعلومات والاتصال (حالة الجزائر في الفترة بين 2007-2013)

Abstract

This study attempt to display the reality of information and communication technology sector in Algeria and its contribution extent to advancing economic development, and that by build a composite index includes a set of variables which affect and are affected by the information and communication technology, and these variables varied in being variants contain range of economic, social, structural, and political information's. The composite index include in it’s account 15 partial variable, obtained from six composite indexes, which are: ICT development index, E-Government index, Network Readiness index, Global Competitiveness index, ICT price basket, Global Innovation index. It was applied to build composite indicators methodology in accordance with the proposed model of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD, by using statistical package for social sciences processing program, and the result of composite index showed that the information and communication technology sector in Algeria affected according to four factors which are: The information and communication technology adoption factors, information and communication technology interactive factors, the factors of cost and use information and communication technology, the factors of communication ability, in addition, this result showed that this index contribute in the evaluation of multiple economic dimensions, this study limited this dimension in: the global technological situation, Competitiveness, development, investment, human capital, research and development .