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News & Events
News
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01-Nov-2011
The Terms of Reference articulate a shared view among OECD members about key aspects of the current context for privacy protection and provide orientation for further work on the review.
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05-Aug-2011
This guide provides the statistical definitions, classifications and methods to measure and compare the information society across countries. It provides a standard reference for statisticians, analysts and policy-makers in the field. In particular, the guide should assist countries that want to start or develop new statistical programmes to measure the information society.
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28-Jul-2011
The Mexican Government has exploited technology to continually innovate and improve its operations. Chapter 2, in a new publication on Mexico, draws attention to the government’s efforts to better integrate, simplify and implement e-government processes.
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04-Jul-2011
This report provides an overview of the potential benefits but also limitations of virtual worlds for enhancing collaboration, creativity, and learning across society. It analyses to what extent virtual worlds provide platforms for new and experimental interactions and can thus be considered a catalyst behind the changing nature of innovation, as discussed in particular in the OECD Innovation Strategy. The report also examines the main drivers as well as barriers and challenges for the diffusion of virtual worlds.
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29-Jun-2011
OECD governments and other stakeholders have created a new framework to promote a more transparent, open Internet at a two-day meeting in Paris. The new principles, agreed by OECD member governments, business representatives and technical experts, aim to advance the debate on Internet governance. They underline the benefits that today’s light-touch, flexible regulation has brought in driving innovation and economic growth.
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22-Jun-2011
The fast-growing popularity of smartphones and tablet PCs is driving growth in mobile broadband services.
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22-Jun-2011
This report examines broadband plans across the OECD area, providing an overview of common elements and goals in those plans. An annex to this report contains references and links to the plans.
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22-Jun-2011
This report focuses on developments in broadband market structures emerging from the deployment of high-speed broadband services and the policy and regulatory implications. The aim is to underline good practices for policy and regulation. An annex contains selected country descriptions and background information drawn on for this report.
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22-Jun-2011
The report examines the use of fibre to provide local access networks for the provision of broadband access. Countries across the OECD are adopting different approaches to stimulate investment and to define the terms of competition to end-users in a fibre to the home or building world.
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08-Jun-2011
Regulators and policy makers should boost competition among mobile telephone operators to cut the high prices being charged for international data roaming, according to this new report. Analysis of pricing plans at 68 operators in the 34 OECD countries points to a strong case for new consumer protection and empowerment measures.
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Events
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from 14-Oct-2011 to 15-Oct-2011
The ongoing crisis illustrates all too well the importance of trust and confidence for the proper functioning of our financial system. Although a lot has been done to address financial governance and risks, more attention is needed on understanding the impact of the financial crisis on households and individual consumers. Thus, on 14 October 2011, the governments of the G20 met in Paris to address challenges in consumer financial protection area. See the speech of Angel Gurría, the OECD secretary-general.
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from 27-Sep-2011 to 30-Sep-2011
The OECD continues its tradition of actively engaging with the UN-supported forum for multi-stakeholder policy dialogue on Internet Governance. Our forum and workshops will discuss policy principles for an open Internet, economic aspects of local content and mobile government for inclusive public services. Remote participation will be possible.
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from 12-Oct-2011 to 13-Oct-2011
The focus of this event held in Washington, DC, was discussion of a new approach to harmonizing broadband and Internet economy metrics.
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on 25-Oct-2011
This workshop is aimed at examining the methods and techniques that governments, the industry and other stakeholders are employing to address certain consumer problems in communication services, notably i) billing issues, ii) contract terms, and iii) misleading and fraudulent claims. It will use the framework and approaches developed in the OECD Consumer Policy Toolkit , which is a practical guide designed to aid policy makers in understanding and evaluating consumer problems and in developing effective policy responses.
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on 01-Nov-2011
With important changes underway in privacy frameworks around the world, the OECD is organising this conference hosted by the Ministry of the Economy of Mexico in conjunction with the Federal Institute for Access to Information and Data Protection, to be held back-to-back with the 33rd International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners.
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from 28-Jun-2011 to 29-Jun-2011
The aim of this meeting is to reach a consensus on how best to ensure the continued growth and innovation of the Internet economy. The meeting follows up on the OECD Ministerial Meeting on The Future of the Internet Economy held in June 2008 and the Seoul Declaration adopted at that meeting.
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on 15-Apr-2011
Innovative online payments services has increasingly been offered to consumers in recent years. Financial and non-financial institutions are now working towards the commercialisation of new and easy-to-use mobile payment systems. Despite the benefits and convenience these systems may bring, a number of issues need to be resolved. An OECD workshop served to discuss emerging challenges in the payments area and ways to address them effectively. The event was organised within the framework of the review of the 1999 E-commerce Guidelines.
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from 15-Feb-2011 to 16-Feb-2011
This workshop reviewed how new high-speed and mobile applications, connected devices, social networks, and related cutting-edge smart technological developments can provide unprecedented opportunities for developing an environment and services that can help address the health and wellness challenges of our ageing society, stimulating collaboration and innovation on a global scale.
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on 21-Jul-2010
US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz welcomed stakeholders and journalists at a roundtable discussion in Washington, DC on the OECD's just-published "Consumer Policy Toolkit". Ambassador Karen Kornbluh and OECD Director for Science, Technology and Industry Andrew Wyckoff highlighted the relevance of this work for policy makers and welcomed questions from the public. For more information on the event, click here.
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