Improving the Evidence Base for Information Security and Privacy Policies: Understanding the Opportunities and Challenges related to Measuring Information Security, Privacy and the Protection of Children Online

This report provides an overview of existing data and statistics in the fields of information security, privacy and the protection of children online. It highlights the potential for the development of better indicators in these respective fields showing in particular that there is an underexploited wealth of empirical data that, if mined and made comparable, will enrich the current evidence base for policy making.

The Development and Diffusion of Digital Content

Viewers are watching a growing share of video via Internet-based distribution systems. New digital content distribution services are having appreciable impacts on established media industries and network service providers in many OECD countries. This paper argues that convergence should be taken as the rule, rather than the exception. Careful application of best practices can address most policy concerns.

Cybersecurity: Managing risks for greater opportunities

While the nature of cyber attacks continues to include criminal activities motivated by financial gain, the main emerging threats are large-scale denial of service attacks, information leaks, targeted cyber espionage, and the disruption of critical infrastructures.

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E-books: Developments and Policy Considerations

This report provides background on e-book markets and examines various policy issues. These include differing tax rates in countries between physical books and e-books, consumer lock-in to specific platforms, limitations on how users can read and share their purchased content, and a lack of transparency about how data on their reading habits is used.

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OECD Technology Foresight Forum 2012 - Harnessing data as a new source of growth: Big data analytics and policies

The 2012 Technology Foresight Forum will focus on the potential of big data analytics as a new source of growth, which could help generate significant economic and social benefits

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Internet traffic exchange: 2 billion users and it’s done on a handshake

Every day one exabyte of data is said to travel over the Internet – enough data to fill 300,000 of the world’s biggest hard disks or 212 million DVDs. And astonishingly, according to a new OECD report on Internet traffic exchange, most of the thousands of networks that exchange this traffic do so without a written contract or formal agreement.

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• Internet Traffic Exchange: Market Developments and Policy Challenges (OECD Digital Economy Paper 207)

L’OCDE lance un portail en ligne pour renforcer la sécurité des produits

L’OCDE a créé un portail en ligne pour offrir aux consommateurs, aux entreprises et aux administrations un accès rapide et facile aux informations les plus récentes sur les produits retirés du marché en Australie, au Canada, en Europe et aux États-Unis.

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Fixed and Mobile Networks: Substitution, Complementarity and Convergence (OECD Digital Economy Paper 206)

Mobile providers have garnered a very large share of traditional services, such as telephony, over the past decade. Nevertheless, mobile networks are dependent on fixed networks and could not efficiently meet the rapidly expanding demand of users without the contributions made by fixed broadband networks.

Le secteur des technologies de l’information résiste bien au ralentissement économique, selon l’OCDE

Les entreprises Internet continuent de doper la croissance et la création d’emplois dans l’industrie des technologies de l’information, la progression rapide de la demande de services mobiles contribuant à dynamiser les recettes et l’investissement dans la recherche-développement, selon un nouveau rapport de l’OCDE.

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Méthodologie de construction des paniers de haut débit sans fil

L'OCDE a adopté une nouvelle méthodologie pour les paniers de prix des services mobiles haut débit sans fil. Ceci s'ajoute aux paniers déjà existants pour les services vocaux (fixes et mobiles), les lignes louées et les services haut débit fixe, reflétant l'importance grandissante des services haut débit sans fil pour les ordinateurs portables, les tablettes et les smartphones.

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