One of the recommendations of the National ICT Strategic Plan (NICTSP) 2007-11 is the definition of indicators which are essential for setting policy priorities, measuring progress towards targets, and benchmarking results. Thus, indicators can be viewed as having a definitional function in terms of setting the parameters of the problem to be addressed. The decision of which indicators are important to collect provides evidence of what is being valued. The definition, design and measurement underlying indicators must be effected in reference to how they are intended to be used.

A National ICT Indicator Taskforce, as recommended in the NICTSP report, was set up by the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology to come up with a definition of the indicators for the ICT sector (including a definition of the ICT Sector). The Task Force adopted the definition at the level of international organisations such as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS), UNESCO and Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI) Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy when developing the indicators.

The ICT Indicators Task Force will regulate the updates on the definitions of indicators to be considered to regularly assess the development of the Information Society in Mauritius and ensure that the objectives are met. The indicators thus approved by the Task Force comprised of 138 indicators which were classified under the following seven broad categories: