The International Telecommunications Union has just issued a new report entitled Measuring the Information Society: The ICT Development Index. Earlier indexes constructed by the ITU included the digital access index, and the digital opportunity index (DOI) In recent years, South Korea had ranked number one in the world on the DOI. Essentially the new ICT Development Index (IDI) is a response to calls for a single index that will allow nations of the world to assess their progress toward building the information society and eliminating the digital divide. As shown in the accompanying graphic, all of the top ten countries on the IDI are from Northern Europe, with the exception of South Korea. The complete report can be downloaded in a PDF version from the ITU's website, using this link.