OECD RSS
The growth and development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has led to their wide diffusion and application, thus increasing their economic and social impact. The OECD undertakes a wide range of activities aimed at improving our understanding of how ICTs contribute to sustainable economic growth and social well-being and their role in the shift toward knowledge-based societies.
Updated: 7 min 49 sec ago
OECD Insights: The Internet of Things
OECD Insights blog: The Internet of Things
Categories: European ICT News
MEXICO: Telecoms reform would boost competition and growth in Mexico, says OECD
MEXICO: Telecoms reform would boost competition and growth in Mexico, says OECD
Categories: European ICT News
ICT Applications for the Smart Grid: Opportunities and Policy Implications (OECD Digital Economy Paper 190)
This paper discusses "smart” applications of ICTs for more sustainable energy production, management and consumption. The smart grid is a particular application area expected to help tackle a number of structural challenges that global energy supply and demand are facing.
Categories: European ICT News
Digital Divide: From Computer Access to Online Activities – A Micro Data Analysis (OECD Digital Economy Paper 189)
This study addresses issues of digital divide among households and individuals by using micro-data analysis of ICT usage patterns. The analysis includes data from 18 European countries, Korea and Canada. Inequalities in computer and Internet use are analysed in a two-step approach.
Categories: European ICT News
OECD Council Recommendation on Principles for Internet Policy Making
Amid concern that the openness of the Internet that has been key in stimulating innovation and economic growth is currently eroding, the OECD has adopted a set of shared principles to preserve the fundamental openness of the Internet and its free flow of information.
Categories: European ICT News
Tweeting on your taxes
Social media is being exploited by advertisers, politicians and headhunters. Government tax offices are also weighing in.
Categories: European ICT News
Internet economy: wireless subscribers drive broadband growth, says OECD
Demand from new wireless subscribers is driving growth in high-speed Internet in OECD countries but the latest data show a slowdown in fixed broadband subscriptions in the first half of 2011.
Categories: European ICT News
Current Developments in Privacy Frameworks: Towards Global Interoperability
The conference is an excellent opportunity to bring government policy makers together with the global privacy community while the OECD proceeds with its review of the OECD Privac
Categories: European ICT News
Consumer Policy Toolkit Workshop: Communication Services
This OECD workshop will be held on 25 October 2011 and examinie certain consumer problems in communication services, notably i) billing issues, ii) contract terms, and iii) misleading and fraudulent claims.
Categories: European ICT News
G20 finance ministers agree new principles to boost financial consumer protection
G20 finance ministers have agreed new principles on financial consumer protection developed by the OECD. “Without consumer trust and confidence we could jeopardise the basis for global economic recovery and growth,” said OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría.
Categories: European ICT News
OECD Workshop on Broadband Metrics
A workshop on the development of broadband Internet metrics will be hosted by the FCC and co-chaired by the United States Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C., United States, on October 12-13, 2011.
Categories: European ICT News
OECD events at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2011
The OECD organised the following events that took place at the sixth annual Internet Governance Forum Meeting in Nairobi (Kenya) on 27-30 September 2011
Categories: European ICT News
Communiqué on principles for Internet policy-making: OECD high-level meeting on the Internet economy
OECD member governments, business groups and technical experts in June 2011 agreed a new framework to promote a more transparent and open Internet.
Categories: European ICT News
Internet economy: New framework for an open Internet agreed at OECD
OECD governments and other stakeholders have created a new framework to promote a more transparent, open Internet at a two-day meeting in Paris.
Categories: European ICT News
Education: Korea tops new OECD PISA survey of digital literacy
Korea tops a new OECD PISA survey that tests how 15-year olds use computers and the Internet to learn. The next best performers were New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Hong-Kong China and Iceland.
Categories: European ICT News
High-level meeting on the Internet Economy: Generating Innovation and Growth (Paris, 28-29 June 2011)
The aim of this meeting is to reach a consensus on how best to ensure the continued growth and innovation of the Internet economy. It follows up on the OECD Ministerial Meeting on The Future of the Internet Economy held in Seoul in June 2008.
Categories: European ICT News
Economy: Global shocks to become more frequent, says OECD
Disruptive shocks to the global economy are likely to become more frequent and cause greater economic and societal hardship, according to a new OECD report.
Categories: European ICT News
Internet economy: Wireless broadband subscriptions top half a billion, says OECD
The fast-growing popularity of smartphones and tablet PCs is driving growth in mobile broadband services. Wireless broadband subscriptions in OECD countries had exceeded half a billion by the end of 2010, ...
Categories: European ICT News
Internet Economy: OECD high-level meeting on generating innovation and growth
Government ministers, business leaders and industry experts will meet on 28 and 29 June at the OECD to advance discussions on Internet regulation and how best to drive its continued growth and innovation.
Categories: European ICT News
More effective competition and better regulation needed to cut high mobile data roaming costs, says OECD
Regulators and policy makers should boost competition among mobile telephone operators to cut the high prices being charged for international data roaming, according to a new OECD report.
Categories: European ICT News
