14-March-2019
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These statistical indicators summarise the current state of the ICT sector.
8-March-2019
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This report uses a standard gravity setup to analyse the determinants of e-commerce, using data on online credit card payments by private Spanish customers of the multinational bank BBVA.
7-March-2019
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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.
6-March-2019
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Technological change and business model innovations are altering the e-commerce landscape, and these new developments affect policy frameworks along several dimensions. Policies should be coordinated to unlock the potential of e-commerce for all.
4-March-2019
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This paper analyses the role of the digital transformation for business dynamics across countries. The analysis combines unique harmonised data on business dynamics for 15 countries with a multi-dimensional measure of digital intensity that takes into account different facets of the digital transformation.
22-February-2019
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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.
19-February-2019
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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.
19-February-2019
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This paper investigates the hypothesis that the real contribution of ICT investment may be masked in official statistics because intermediate ICT expenditures embodied in non-ICT capital assets are not treated as ICT investment.
15-February-2019
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The OECD is consulting the public on a draft OECD Recommendation on Digital Security of Critical Activities that aims to replace the 2008 OECD Recommendation on the Protection of Critical Information Infrastructures. Comments are invited until 28 February 2019.
15-February-2019
English
The application of digital technologies holds the potential to reshape existing policies and enable innovative policy design and rigorous impact evaluation. From the first pioneering experiences of policy applications, it is possible to identify four areas in which digital transformation promises to improve policy making.