| Dimension | Focused areas for promotion, upgrading, and progress monitoring |
| ICT connectivity and access | Broadband connectivity |
| Mobile phone coverage | |
| Cost and quality competition among ICT products and services providers | |
| ICT usage | Use by individual; use by business; and use by government |
| Incentives to promote ICT usage by the poor, rural communities, and SMEs | |
| ICT legal and regulatory framework | Telecommunications regulation |
| Spectrum frequency allocation | |
| E-commerce laws (digital signatures, intellectual property laws, e-payment) | |
| Cyber security laws and regulations | |
| ICT trade tariff and regulations | |
| Access to data and cross-border data transfer | |
| Investment regulations | |
| ICT production and trade | ICT-enabled services and ICT content provision |
| SMEs in the ICT sector (financing, investment, and capacity building) | |
| Innovation and R&D in the ICT sector | |
| e-market places | |
| Special industrial parks/zones/villages for ICT sector development (such as software, high-tech, call centers) | |
| ICT skills and human resources | ICT skills in primary and secondary schools |
| ICT graduates and programs at universities and vocational schools | |
| Training projects to enhance the ICT workforce | |
| Incentives for private sector companies to organize/support ICT capacity building | |
| Cyber security | Minimization of vulnerability to cyber-attacks |
| National cyber security exercise programs | |
| Emergency response to cyber-attack plans | |
| New ICT applications | Smart city development |
| Big data analysis | |
| Internet of things |