"Space for the OECD" published in @mosphere, OECD in December 2006

15-Feb-2007

Beyond the traditional scientific and military, how can space applications help with the range of challenges facing our societies today ? - security, the environment, disaster relief, health, education, communications, remedying the digital divide, transport... How can space help with the economy? In 2002 the IFP launched a project  to investigate the economic dimensions of space activities, and how space technologies could contribute to finding solutions to Earth’s problems. 

What is the OECD Forum on Space Economics?

18-Jan-2007

The OECD Forum on Space Economics was launched in February 2006. This original forum aims to provide evidence-based analysis to assist agencies and governments shape policies to contribute to ensuring that the potential of space is more fully realised. For more information about the Space Forum, please read the descriptive overview .  A first publication "Space Economy at a Glance" will be available in summer 2007.

OECD launches data-analysis initiative to help space agencies and governments

21-Feb-2006

The OECD has launched a Global Forum on Space Economics to help space agencies and governments better analyse the opportunities and challenges of the space sector and its technology applications.
For more information please contact Mr. Pierre-Alain Schieb at pierre-alain.schieb@oecd.org.

POLICY BRIEF: Solutions in Space

12-Oct-2005

Space, and man's relationship to it, has captured the human imagination for centuries. During the 20th century, dreams of space exploration became reality, and now dozens of countries, in particular in the OECD area, devote major resources to space programes. But is this money well spent? Can we use space to find solutions to Earth's probelms? How can space help tacke major social challenges? Are space solutions cost-effective? Do space activities have a promising future? Why are framework conditions so important? How to improve space's contribution to society?

Global Forum on Space Economics

from 27-Oct-2005 to 28-Oct-2005

On 27th and 28th October 2005, senior policy makers and decision makers from the space sector met in Paris to discuss the creation of an OECD Global Forum for the Economic Analysis of the Space Sector. The Forum, which operates within the OECD International Futures Programme, focused on the economic and social dimensions of space applications and exploration, thereby filling an important gap in the current international institutional framework for space-related activities. Please address enquiries to Pierre-Alain.Schieb@oecd.org.

PUBLICATION: Space 2030: Tackling Society's Challenges

Space technology has huge potential to provide practical responses to society’s major challenges. Over the coming decades, governments will increasingly be confronted with long-term problems such as threats to the environment or the management of decreasing natural resources.
The report was presented at a news conference in Luxembourg, on 6 July 2005. 
Speech by Michael Oborne, Director of the International Futures Programme/OECD in English and in French .