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07-Jul-2010
Increasingly sophisticated products and a rapidly changing marketplace mean that surveillance authorities must swiftly detect and recall unsafe products. Global trade now makes international co-operation necessary even to ensure protection of domestic consumers, so enhanced information-sharing mechanisms are critical both between and within countries. The OECD has recently created a Working Party on consumer product safety to facilitate the sharing of information in this field.
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03-Jun-2010
Denmark is at the forefront of efforts made by countries around the world to provide and use online services and to boost a more efficient and effective public sector, more responsive to the changing needs of people and business. To maintain these excellent results, Denmark should further strengthen the whole-of-government approach towards citizen and business engagement.
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10-Dec-2009
The OECD is to undertake a review of Egypt’s e-government policies and services, the first such review in the Middle East North African (MENA) region of a country’s use of information and communications technologies for the provision of public services.
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25-Nov-2009
Make your voice heard at the OECD conference on empowering e-consumers, to be held on 8-10 December in Washington, DC. As of today and throughout the conference, the public is invited to submit questions to the panellists. What do you think about e-commerce? Do you feel safe when making purchases online? Have you experienced any obstacles when buying from foreign countries? What are your questions or ideas? Ask the experts and express your opinion about e-commerce.
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13-Oct-2009
This new publication describes the shift in governments' focus on e-Government development – from a 'government-centric' to a 'user-centric' approach. It provides a comprehensive overview of the challenges faced in e-Government services in OECD countries and explores ways of improving take-up levels.
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29-Jul-2009
A sudden upturn in global sales of information and communications technology (ICT) goods in May and June suggests the ICT industry may have reached a turning point and be on the road to recovery, according to a new OECD report.
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08-Jul-2009
Financial services firms must make sure their customers understand what they are letting themselves in for when they sign up for mortgages, consumer loans and other products, under new OECD guidelines designed to avoid a repeat of the sub-prime mortgage crisis and ensuing credit crunch that sent the world economy into recession.
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29-May-2009
This analytical report was prepared to facilitate discussion at the OECD Committee on Consumer Policy’s Roundtable on consumer product safety, held on 23 October 2008. It describes consumer product safety frameworks at domestic, regional and international levels. It also identifies the cross-border challenges in consumer product safety co-operation and co-ordination mechanisms.
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29-May-2009
This report summarizes the discussion at the Roundtable on consumer product safety, held on 23 October 2008. It describes each session of the Roundtable with its discussions, identifying issues and challenges of the international consumer product safety policy and enforcement. From the fruitful discussion at the Roundtable, a number of conclusions and steps forward in the product safety area was proposed.
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01-Apr-2009
e-Government for Better Government was published by the OECD in November 2005 and is now available in Spanish. It is distributed by the National Public Administration Institute (INAP) of Spain under the following title: e-Gobierno para un Mejor Gobierno.
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Events
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from 19-Nov-2008 to 20-Nov-2008
Building the business case for digital identity management and understanding its fundamental role in the deployment of e-government and innovation in service delivery was the main focus of a seminar on 19-20 November 2008, held at the OECD Headquarters in Paris, where experts met to exchange experiences and good practices.
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from 18-Nov-2008 to 19-Nov-2008
Innovation is crucial to long-term economic growth. Making innovation-driven growth happen requires action on a wide range of policy areas, from education and science and technology to product and labour markets and trade. OECD and the World Bank are joining forces to work more closely on innovation, particularly insofar as this issue is a crucial factor in the success of development policy, notably in middle income market economies.
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Building the Public Services of Tomorrow With, For and Around Customers
from 20-Oct-2008 to 22-Oct-2008
In his speech at the 5th Quality Conference for Public Administration in the EU, Secretary-General Angel Gurría emphasised that is it important for governments to put citizens at the centre of public services and increase their confidence in the state, especially in times of turmoil.
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from 06-Mar-2008 to 07-Mar-2008
The 2008 E-Leaders Conference brought together senior government officials responsible for e-government from OECD countries to discuss the role of e-government in 2020, the impact of e-government on economic development and the creation of an agenda for e-government and public sector delivery. The event was organised in co-operation with The Netherlands's Ministry of the Interior and Kingdgom Relations.
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