NSCB Resolution No. 2
Series of 2008

APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS FOR STATISTICAL PURPOSES FOR INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY SECTOR 

Annex-BR-02-2008-01a

Note:  Metadata for the concepts for ICT statistics, which are defined below, are provided
in Annex BR-02-2008-01b.

1. E-Commerce – The sale or purchase of goods and services, whether between businesses, households, individuals, governments, and other public or private organisations, conducted over computer-mediated networks.  The goods and services are ordered over those networks, but the payment and the ultimate delivery of the good or service may be conducted on- or offline

2. Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) – The delegation of one or more IT-intensive business processes to an external provider that, in turn, owns, administers, and manages the selected process or processes based on defined and measurable performance metrics

3. Value Added Service Provider (VASP) – An entity which, relying on the transmission, switching and local distribution facilities of the local exchange and inter-exchange operators, and overseas carriers, offers enhanced services beyond those ordinarily provided for by such carriers

4. Internet Service Provider (ISP) – A company which provides end-users with a data connection allowing access to the internet and the associated services (World Wide Web, Email, Chat rooms, Instant Messaging, Internet Telephony and so on)

5. Broadband internet subscriber – An individual, organization, or company that pays for high speed access to the public Internet

6. Web presence – A web site, home page or presence on another entity's Web site (including a related business).  Inclusion in an online directory and any other Web pages where the business does not have substantial control over the content of the page is not considered "web presence"

7. Public Internet Access Centers (PIAC) – A site, location, or center of instruction at which Internet access is made available to the public, on a full-time or part-time basis.  This may include digital community centers, Internet cafes' libraries, education enters and other similar establishments, whenever they offer Internet access to the general public

8. Telephone Density – Number of fixed telephone lines per 100 population