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on 05-Nov-2009
Innovation in ICTs is key to achieving ambitious CO2 emissions reductions. At the UN Climate Change talks in Barcelona - four weeks ahead of COP15 - the OECD, ITU, GeSI and international partners discussed how ICTs can help combat global warming.
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from 14-Nov-2009 to 18-Nov-2009
This workshop, held in Egypt, addressed developments in international ICT services sourcing enabled by the Internet, analysed the impacts of the economic crisis, and suggested frameworks for development and supply of these services from developing countries. A webcast is available.
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on 09-Dec-2009
The OECD used latest video-conferencing technology to hold an international discussion in real-time at the UN Climate Change talks in Copenhagen (COP15). The topic was: “The role of ICTs for climate change. Lead role or supporting act?”. It involved speakers in Denmark, India, Hong Kong (China), France and Japan sitting around a “virtual” table and facing each other in high definition. A filmed webcast is available.
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from 10-Sep-2009 to 11-Sep-2009
Information communication technologies (ICTs) are crucial to reducing poverty, improving access to health and education services and creating new sources of income and employment for the poor. But there are substantial discrepancies in access to ICTs between, but also within, countries, depending on key factors such as gender, rural coverage, skills and educational levels. This workshop, organised jointly by the World Bank/infoDev and the OECD, aimed to share best practices in coherent approaches to meeting development objectives laid out by Ministers.
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on 15-Apr-2009
The Internet is an extraordinary tool for children’s education and development. However, children also face a variety of risks online such as exposure to harmful content, cyberbullying, breach of privacy, etc. The joint APEC-OECD Symposium aimed at sharing experience with regards to initiatives to protect children online including government measures, public-private partnerships and regional/international co-operation.
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from 27-May-2009 to 28-May-2009
The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation is hosting this high-level OECD conference on the potential of information and communication technologies to combat climate change and improve environmental performance. This event is webcast live.
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from 08-Jun-2009 to 09-Jun-2009
This conference, to be held in Lisbon, aims to help policy makers understand sensor networks and their potential to help address global challenges. It will explore the conditions for and consequences of innovation in this area including economic aspects, privacy and information security as well as infrastructure issues.
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High-level OECD Conference ICTs, Environment and Climate Change
from 27-May-2009 to 28-May-2009
The Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation will host a high-level OECD Conference on how ICTs can improve environmental performance and mitigate climate change in all sectors of the economy. One of the sessions will address the role of ICTs for sustainable consumption, and will highlight the importance of consumer protection and education in this respect. The event will gather representative from governments, business, and consumer organisations.
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OECD participation in the EMARS II Launch Event
from 16-Mar-2009 to 17-Mar-2009
The OECD participated in the EMARS II Launch Event, held on 16-17 March 2009, in Vienna. During the meeting the deliverables of the EMARS project were discussed. The OECD took part in the discussion on the future steps in EMARS II project and explored possibilities of closer co-operation with the European stakeholders in consumer product safety issues. Information on the deliverables produced under EMARS can be found at http://www.emars.eu/EMARS_Deliverables.html
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on 01-Apr-2009
On 1 April 2009, the OECD Committee on Consumer Policy and the International Consumer Protection Enforcement Network (ICPEN) held a joint meeting on Electronic Commerce at the OECD Headquarters in Paris. Discussions at the joint meeting will inform the review of the 1999 OECD Guidelines on Consumer Protection in the Context of Electronic Commerce that is being carried out by the Committee on Consumer Policy.
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