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The Information Economy group examines the economic and social implications of the development, diffusion and use of ICTs, the Internet and e-business, and related policies.
The Working Party on the Information Economy focuses on digital content, ICT diffusion to business, ICT-enabled offshoring, ICT skills and employment and produces the Information Technology Outlook. The Working Party has prepared a recommendation on public sector information.
Work is underway on ICTs and the environment and ICTs and the economic recovery.
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13-Jan-2012
The smart grid is revolutionizing electricity production and consumption. However, strategic use of ICTs and the Internet in energy innovation requires clarifying the roles of partners coming from distinct industries. And it begs for greater coordination of government departments and stakeholder communities that so far had unrelated competencies. This report outlines opportunities, challenges and public policy implications from shifts to ICT-enabled, "smart" electricity grids.
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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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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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22-Apr-2011
This paper reports on a roundtable held on 1 December 2010 that explored the recent transformation in the ways that personal data is gathered and used to generate economic and social value, along with parallel growth in a privacy profession to protect it.
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04-Feb-2011
The Egyptian government has taken great steps in the past years to develop and promote the use and uptake of technologies. But the recent shutdown of Internet and communications services will have a pronounced economic impact.
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