Publications and documents

OECD Internet Economy Outlook 2012

Proactive Policy Measures by Internet Service Providers against Botnets (OECD Digital Economy Paper 199)

This report analyses initiatives in a number of countries through which end-users are notified by ISPs when their computer is identified as being compromised by malicious software and encouraged to take action to mitigate the problem.

ICT Skills and Employment: New Competences and Jobs for a Greener and Smarter Economy (OECD Digital Economy Paper 198)

The emerging "green" economy is a "smarter" economy that has increased demand for ICT-skilled jobs not only in the ICT sector, but more rapidly across the wider non-ICT economy.

Measuring the Broadband Bonus in Thirty OECD Countries (OECD Digital Economy Paper 197)

This working paper provides estimates of the economic value created by broadband Internet using measures of new gross domestic product and consumer surplus.

Measuring the Impact of Innovations in Public IT Infrastructure on the Standard of Living in OECD Economies (OECD Digital Economy Paper 196)

This paper utilises an economic model that looks at the end result – observations on changes in the pattern of consumer spending behaviour – and econometrically estimates the extent of the link between these behavioural changes and their drivers: traditional economic stimuli as well as changes in the economic environment due to advances in technology and improved provision of public sector IT infrastructure.

Information and Communication Technologies and Productivity Growth: A Survey of the Literature (OECD Digital Economy Paper 195)

This working paper presents a review of existing studies on dynamic, macroeconomic effects of ICT on productivity and growth.

Measuring the Internet: The Data Challenge (OECD Digital Economy Paper 194)

Measuring the economic and social impacts of the Internet presents several challenges. This working paper reviews the rapidly changing nature of the Internet, the need for more granular data in order to understand its complexity, and the phenomenon of big data.

Machine-to-Machine Communications: Connecting Billions of Devices (OECD Digital Economy Paper 192)

The report provides examples of some of the uses of machine-to-machine communication today and its potential to enhance economic and social development. It concludes that to achieve such benefits, changes to telecommunication policy and regulatory frameworks may be required.