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Good practice guide on online advertising: Protecting consumers in e-commerce

This guide highlights a number of good practices from policy makers, consumer enforcement agencies and stakeholders. Building on examples, it also offers tips for businesses on misleading marketing practices, ad identification, endorsements and protection of children or vulnerable consumers.

OECD urges more action on bridging digital divides, boosting skills and enhancing access to data at Going Digital Summit

The digital transformation is well under way, yet its scope and speed varies greatly across countries, sectors, people and places. Going digital will only fully benefit economies and societies if governments step up efforts to prepare businesses, people and policies for a digital world, the OECD said today.

Measuring the Digital Transformation - A Roadmap for the Future

Data in the digital age - policy note

The growing interactions between data, algorithms and big data analytics, connected things and people are opening huge new opportunities. But they are also giving rise to issues around “data governance” at the national and international levels.

Enhancing access and connectivity to harness digital transformation - policy note

Digital transformation can only be fully realised if high quality access to communication networks and services is made available at affordable prices for all people and firms no matter who they are or where they live.

Seize the opportunities of digital technology to improve well-being but also address the risks

Digital technology can improve our lives but it also poses a major risk of widening social inequality and blocking opportunities for people without the skills to navigate the online world safely, according to a new OECD report.

How's Life in the Digital Age? - Opportunities and Risks of the Digital Transformation for People's Well-being

Determinants and impact of automation: An analysis of robot adoption in OECD countries

A better understanding of what robots actually do and to what extent they are used across countries and sectors can help policy makers design policies aimed at smoothing the transition towards industry 4.0. This report sheds light on automation trends and their effect on employment.

Productivity growth in the digital age - policy note

Digital transformation represents an opportunity for improving productivity growth by enabling innovation and reducing the costs of a range of business processes. Yet despite the rapid advance of digital technologies, aggregate productivity growth has slowed over the past decade or so, raising the question of how digital technologies can boost productivity.

International community makes important progress on the tax challenges of digitalisation

The international community has made important progress toward addressing the tax challenges arising from digitalisation of the economy and has agreed to continue working multilaterally towards achievement of a new consensus-based long-term solution in 2020, the OECD announced today.