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The '''ISOC Local Content Report''' is a peer-reviewed study on the relationship between local content, internet development, and access prices, resulting from a 2011 collaboration between [[ISOC]], the [[OECD|Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] and [[UNESCO]]. Its initial findings were presented at the sixth annual [[IGF]] Conference, held in Nairobi, Kenya, on September 27-30, 2011.<ref name="icann2">[http://www.oecd.org/internet/ieconomy/50305352.pdf ISOC Local Content Report], oecd.org. Published 2011. Retrieved 2016 March 21.</ref>
The '''ISOC Local Content Report''' is a peer-reviewed study on the relationship between local content, internet development, and access prices, resulting from a 2011 collaboration between [[ISOC]], the [[OECD|Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development]] and [[UNESCO]]. Its initial findings were presented at the sixth annual [[IGF]] Conference, held in Nairobi, Kenya, on September 27-30, 2011.<ref name="study">[http://www.oecd.org/internet/ieconomy/50305352.pdf ISOC Local Content Report], oecd.org. Published 2011. Retrieved 2016 March 21.</ref>
The study's main finding is that there is a strong correlation between the development of network infrastructure and the growth of local content, even after controlling for economic and demographic factors.<ref name="study"></ref>
Measures of local content included:<ref name="study"></ref>
* Numbers of visible [[TLD]]s in use per country code, per capita;
* Wikipedia articles and blogs per language, per capita;
* Measures of internet development, such as broadband penetration rates, autonomous systems per capita, international bandwidth per capita and routed [[IPv4]] addresses per capita.
==General Findings==
==References==
==References==