- The EU Digitalisation dashboard presents more than 20 critical technical and socio-economic ICT indicators.
- Nearly 98% of EU households have access to fixed broadband; 90% have access to 5G mobile services.
- Regional open-source projects like this provide us with greater resolution of the Internet, greater context regarding the holistic Internet ecosystem, and help improve development and policy transparency.
The European Commission recently released a new open-source data dashboard that collates and tracks critical metrics aligned with the EU’s digital transformation targets for 2030.
The Digitalisation dashboard presents more than 20 indicators for each EU country (as well as Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland) related to local businesses’ use of ICT and e-commerce, digital skills, and employment in the ICT sector, the public’s use of e-commerce, e-governance, and e-health services, and broadband coverage and affordability.
Some quick Internet resilience takeaways:
- Monthly fixed broadband Internet prices have dropped by nearly 25% (2019—2022)
- Nearly 98% of households have access to fixed broadband (see chart below)
- 76% of the population have access to 1GB/sec broadband
- 90% have access to 5G mobile services
Human Digital Capacity Needs to Increase
This recent initiative is one of several ways the European Commission is measuring the progress of its Digital Decade policy program targets associated with skills, digital transformation of businesses, secure and sustainable digital infrastructures, and the digitalization of public services.
According to its 2024 State of the Digital Decade report, EU countries need to significantly increase investment to meet several of these targets, in particular:
- Improving basic overall digital skills (currently 24% below the 2030 target of 80%)
- More than doubling the 9.8 million people employed in ICT specialist occupations (target 20 million)
- Increasing small and medium-sized enterprises’ basic digital intensity from 58% to 90%.
Open Source Measurement Data Improves Transparency
Regional open-source projects like this provide us with greater resolution of the Internet, greater context regarding the holistic Internet ecosystem, and help improve development and policy transparency.
We encourage all governments to make this and other Internet resilience data freely available for their citizens and researchers to better understand the availability, evolution, and resilience of the Internet in their countries and regions.