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For years, the government has been investing (partly) in publications and statistics in the field of electronic communication, but the rapid changes in the field of ICT are difficult to capture in conventional statistics.
Dialogic, commissioned by the Ministry of Economic Affairs, investigated the use of the internet as a data source. This involves cleverly using data on and from the internet, such as raw data, traffic data, internet statistics, data from various providers, and unofficial parties that publish data, indicators, and statistics. Ultimately, this alternative set of data, indicators, and statistics could form a second pillar alongside the current set of official statistics.
