Transparent Estimation of Internet Penetration from Network Observations

Benitez-Baleato, Suso; Weidmann, Nils B.; Gigis, Petros; Dimitropoulos, Xenofontas; Glatz, Eduard; Trammell, Brian

Transparent Estimation of Internet Penetration from Network Observations

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2015

Authors

Benitez-Baleato, Suso

Weidmann, Nils B.

Gigis, Petros

Dimitropoulos, Xenofontas

Glatz, Eduard

Trammell, Brian

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Passive and Active Measurement : 16th International Conference, PAM 2015, New York, NY, USA, March 19-20, 2015, Proceedings / Mirkovic, Jelena; Liu, Yong (ed.). - Cham : Springer, 2015. - (Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 8995). - pp. 220-231. - ISSN 0302-9743. - eISSN 1611-3349. - ISBN 978-3-319-15508-1

Abstract

The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) provide Internet penetration statistics, which are collected from official national sources worldwide, and they are widely used to inform policy-makers and researchers about the expansion of digital technologies. Nevertheless, these statistics are derived with methodologies, which are often opaque and inconsistent across countries. Even more, regimes may have incentives to misreport such statistics. In this work, we make a first attempt to evaluate the consistency of the ITU/OECD Internet penetration statistics with an alternative indicator of Internet penetration, which can be measured with a consistent methodology across countries and relies on public data. We compare, in particular, the ITU and OECD statistics with measurements of the used IPv4 address space across countries and find very high correlations ranging between 0.898 and 0.978 for all years between 2006 and 2010. We also observe that the level of consistency drops for less developed or less democratic countries. Besides, we show that measurements of the used IPv4 address space can serve as a more timely Internet penetration indicator with sub-national granularity, using two large developing countries as case studies.

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320 Politics

Keywords

Collaborative Computing - Mobile Computing - Mobile Networks - Network Anonymity - Network Management - Network Measurement - Network Monitoring - Network Performance Evaluation - Network Performance Modeling - Network Properties - Network Protocols - Network Reliability - Network Security - Privacy - Security - Social Computing - Ubiquitous Computing

Conference

PAM 2015 : 16th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement, Mar 19, 2015 - Mar 20, 2015, New York, NY

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BENITEZ-BALEATO, Suso, Nils B. WEIDMANN, Petros GIGIS, Xenofontas DIMITROPOULOS, Eduard GLATZ, Brian TRAMMELL, 2015. Transparent Estimation of Internet Penetration from Network Observations. PAM 2015 : 16th International Conference on Passive and Active Measurement. New York, NY, Mar 19, 2015 - Mar 20, 2015. In: MIRKOVIC, Jelena, ed., Yong LIU, ed.. Passive and Active Measurement : 16th International Conference, PAM 2015, New York, NY, USA, March 19-20, 2015, Proceedings. Cham:Springer, pp. 220-231. ISSN 0302-9743. eISSN 1611-3349. ISBN 978-3-319-15508-1. Available under: doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-15509-8_17

BibTex

@inproceedings{BenitezBaleato2015Trans-31080,
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  doi={10.1007/978-3-319-15509-8_17},
  title={Transparent Estimation of Internet Penetration from Network Observations},
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  issn={0302-9743},
  publisher={Springer},
  address={Cham},
  series={Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  booktitle={Passive and Active Measurement : 16th International Conference, PAM 2015, New York, NY, USA, March 19-20, 2015, Proceedings},
  pages={220--231},
  editor={Mirkovic, Jelena and Liu, Yong},
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