Study on monitoring the Digital Economy and Society in the Eastern European Partner Countries

This report presents the results of a Study on monitoring the Digital Economy and Society in the Eastern Partnership Countries and evaluates the state of affairs in these countries in terms of the availability of data necessary to calculate the index based on the guidelines and recommendations of the OECD’s “Handbook on constructing composite indicators: methodology and user guide”.

Following the country review and gap analysis, this report contains a set of recommendations for the entire EAP region with the aim of raising the maturity of statistics governance and closer alignment with the European DESI-related monitoring framework. Six individual country-reports have also been produced, that present the situation in these countries in detail and define recommendations for each country.