Published on March 11, 2019
Also available in: Spanish
English | Measuring the Digital Transformation (Summary in English) | |
French | Mesurer la transformation numérique | |
Spanish | Cómo medir la transformación digital | |
German | Den digitalen Wandel vermessen: | |
Japanese | デジタル転換を測る | |
Italian | Misurare la trasformazione digitale | |
Chinese | 衡量数字变革 | |
Korean | 디지털 전환의 측정 | |
Portuguese | Avaliação da Transformação Digital | |
Russian | Измерение цифровой трансформации |
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Reader’s Guide | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Executive Summary | |||||||||||||||||||||||
A Measurement Roadmap for the Future | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Data Sources | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Trends in the Digital Era2 chapters available
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Growth and Well-being11 chapters available
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Enhancing Access7 chapters available
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Increasing Effective Use9 chapters available
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Unleashing Innovation8 chapters available
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Ensuring Good Jobs for All7 chapters available
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Promoting Social Prosperity7 chapters available
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Strengthening Trust7 chapters available
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Fostering Market Openness7 chapters available
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the measurement roadmap
The measurement work undertaken in the OECD Going Digital project has led to a set of nine proposed actions that, if prioritised and implemented, would substantially advance the capacity of countries to monitor the digital transformation and its impacts.
Five of the actions are targeted to specific areas identified as requiring attention:
By further building the evidence base, countries can prepare the ground for more robust policies to promote growth and well-being in the digital era. Action now will reap rewards in the future.
Download the measurement roadmap (also available in Chinese, German, Japanese, Portuguese) and selected in-depth thematic roadmaps:
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Growth and well-being | |
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Enhancing access | |
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Increasing effective use | |
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Unleashing innovation | |
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Ensuring good jobs for all | |
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Promoting social prosperity | |
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Strengthening trust | |
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Fostering market openness |
interactive charts
The digital transformation is a multifaceted and fast-moving phenomenon that has significant impacts, including on the business processes and models of firms. As a result, the pace of technology uptake will depend, among other factors, on the type of sector in which a given firm operates. While no single indicator is able to reflect the pace of technology development and diffusion, combining indicators can provide insights into how different sectors, are positioned in terms of technology adoption. Industries can then be classified into quartiles from most to least digital intensive which allows cross-country comparisons across a number of dimensions by digital intensity of sectors.
Going digital toolkit
A smaller set of indicators for the OECD Going Digital policy dimensions has been selected for visualisation and international comparisons in the Going Digital Toolkit. The Toolkit also provides easy access to additional indicators from the publication and the underlying data and databases, as well as related publications, policy guidance and more. |
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