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04-Jul-2006
The development of digital content raises new issues as rapid technological developments challenge existing business models and government policies. This new OECD study identifies and discusses six groups of business and public policy issues, and illustrates them with existing and potential OECD digital content strategies and policies.
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ICTs and Globalisation: China and India (panel session, 2 June 2006)
19-Jun-2006
This panel session was designed to enhance understanding of new developments in the globalisation of the ICT sector and the ICT-enabled globalisation of services, the role played by China and India, and means by which OECD economies can benefit from these developments.
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18-May-2006
This report analyses development and use of online payment systems, covering credit cards, debit cards, online banking, mediating services, mobile telephone payments and electronic money, and industry characteristics and network effects. It analyses drivers and impediments and policy issues.
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14-Apr-2006
Austria is in the middle of OECD countries in information and communication technology indicators. Policy aims to increase competitiveness and tackle market distortions and market failures by liberalising network services, incentives to private R&D, and initiatives for ICT skills and diffusion, but co-ordination remains a complex task.
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14-Apr-2006
Public sector information (PSI) is the raw material for applications across a wide range of industries. This study gives an overview of the main areas of PSI and their commercial applications, and addresses issues related to improving access to public sector content.
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13-Apr-2006
RFID touches on several regulatory and/or policy issues with potentially wide-ranging social, economic, as well as national security implications, including international trade, intellectual property rights, standards, spectrum, security, and privacy.
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22-Apr-2005
This report provides an overview of ICT skills and employment across OECD economies and analyses some of the impacts on economic performance. It presents a new approach to capturing the diffusion of ICTs in the economy. Two measures of ICT-skilled employment are developed, of ICT specialists and a broad measure capturing those people who use ICTs intensively to do their work (both basic and advanced intensive users), as well as specialists.
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05-Apr-2005
Services are increasingly tradable, mainly as a result of rapid technological advances, in particular in information and communication technologies, and continuing liberalisation of trade in services. This has led to the relatively new phenomenon of global services sourcing or offshoring. This report analyses evidence from both trade and employment data.
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16-Mar-2005
The summary of the OECD’s June 2004 expert panel on digital broadband content is now available. As a prelude to five OECD digital content sector studies to be released soon, this summary describes business and policy issues raised by digital content. Click on the link above to access the report.
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How the Internet is changing the world
Vint Cerf talks about the future of the Internet
Tim Berners-Lee talks about how an open Internet is key to driving innovation
