## Contents

####### Chapter 1: ICT — Keystone of Economic Growth Strategy, and Its Expansion into the Global Market ..... 3

Globally Expanding Growth Potentiality of ICT (1)

• Method and Scenarios of ICT’s Contribution to Growth

• World-wide Mobile-user Population

• World-wide Internet-user Population

• Relationship of ICT-adoption Rate with Literacy Rate

• Gaps in Fixed-line, Mobile phone, Internet, and GDP

• World-wide ICT Market

• Adoption of Mobile-finance

• World Telecommunication Infrastructure Investment Trends by Income Group

• World-wide trends in the investment by private sectors in infrastructure-projects

• Examples of ICT strategy in the World

## Trends in the World Countries surrounding Japan (1) ICT infrastructure development and dissemination · · · 6

• LTE-introduction Trends in the world

• Ranking Trends in Major International ICT Indices

- Fixed-line Broadband Penetration Ratio, FTTH Ratio, and Personal-user Population Ratio

• Trends in Mobile (Mobile-Internet, 3G, Mobile phone) Penetration

## Trends in the World Countries surrounding Japan (2) ICT utilization and Market·7

• Utilization in Public Sector

• R&D Investment on ICT Manufacturing / Service

• ICT Industries’ Economic Ripple Effects

• ICT Industries’ Domestic / External Demand

• Trade Specialization Index

• Exports of ICT hardware or services

• Export / Import Trends in TVs, Mobile phones, and PCs

• Internet Advertisement and Internet Music-distribution

• Consumer Sophistication and Domestic Market-size

Economic Growth Driving Force and International Expansion of ICT Industries (3)
• Trends in Sales TOP 100 ICT Corporations in the World
• Trends in Overseas Market Penetration of Telecom-service Providers
• Trends in Overseas Market Penetration of ICT vendors
• EMS Ratio vs. World-wide Share of LCD-TVs or Mobile Phones Manufacturers

Challenges for ICT User Sector Growth (1) ..... 10
• Factor Distribution in rete of change of Labor Productivity
• ICT’s Contribution through its Information-capital Growth and TFP Growth to GDP Growth

Challenges for ICT User Sector Growth (2) ..... 11
• Informatization-investment Progress Index
• ICT-introduction Advantage through CIO’s Involvement in Management-policy
• ICT-introduction Advantage through ICT-and Business Innovation
• ICT-introduction Advantage through CIO’s involvement in Management Policy

Challenges for ICT User Sector Growth (3) ..... 12
• ICT-introduction and its effects: Educational organizations
• ICT-introduction and its effects: Medical organizations
• Effects of EHR utilization
• ICT effects in medical sector

User Recognition and Appreciation of Public ICT Service ..... 13
• Recognition Rate of Public ICT-service Names
• Usage Rate of Public ICT Services
• User Satisfaction
• Interest in Next-use
• Why Not Use Services: Comparison of Local Government Responses with Residents Responses

ICT, Driving Force of Local Economic Growth ..... 14
• State of the activities for ICT-based local community development
• What is the most promising field in ICT-based local community development?
• Eight Severe Problems in ICT-driven Local Community Development
• State of the strategy-preparation and plan-execution for the local-community management
• Data-utilization in strategy-preparation and plan-execution for local community
• ICT Introduction in Data Utilization
• (Reference) Cases of hosting data-centers specialized to local business-services