Why it is needed
Digital development is becoming more complex, cross-sectoral and fast-moving. Regulators and policy-makers need practical tools that help them understand the strength of their policy and regulatory environment, identify priority gaps, and act on evidence. The G5 Accelerator responds to that need by bringing together ITU’s core policy and regulatory benchmarking tools – the ICT Regulatory Tracker, the G5 Benchmark and the Digital Policy Readiness Framework – in one place. It offers a gateway to comparative evidence, collaborative profiles and practical guidance that can support more coherent, forward-looking and collaborative policy and regulatory decision-making.
Objectives
The G5 Accelerator seeks to support regulators, policy-makers and other stakeholders with authoritative evidence and practical guidance to strengthen digital policy and regulatory frameworks. It is designed to help users assess current readiness, compare progress across countries and regions, identify reform priorities, and translate benchmark results into more informed policy action.
More specifically, the objective is to provide a unified platform designed:
- to enable easy, well-signposted access to ITU’s policy and regulatory benchmarks, country data and related resources;
- to support user-driven exploration, comparison and interpretation of results;
- to present evidence and guidance in a clear, accessible and actionable way;
- to help countries use benchmarking as a practical input into reform design, prioritization and monitoring.
Audience
The G5 Accelerator is intended for the global policy and regulatory community, including ICT regulators, line ministries, government agencies and other public authorities involved in digital development. It is also relevant to policy-makers and stakeholders from adjacent sectors whose mandates increasingly intersect with digital policy issues, as well as industry, academia, development partners and other actors contributing to national digital governance and regulatory reform.