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International conference on the future digital economy - Rome, 30-31 January 2006

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12-Jan-2006

What does the future hold for the digital economy? What impact will the rise of digital content have on business and consumers? And what can governments do to create a strong, competitive environment to stimulate innovation and economic growth?

Consumer Protection Authorities

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15-Dec-2005

Links to the consumer protection authority (or authorities) of the countries represented on the OECD Committee on Consumer Policy.

Evaluating Public Participation in Policy Making

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31-Aug-2005

This report offers strategic guidance for policy makers and government officials responsible for commissioning and using evaluations of public engagement. It provides an indication of the key issues for consideration and offers concrete examples drawn from current practice in 8 OECD countries.

Cantieri Programme, Ministry for Public Administration and Innovation, Italy

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08-Jun-2005

The website of the Cantieri Programme of Italy's Ministry for Public Administration and Innovation provides tools, news, publications and links to support innovation in the public sector (in Italian and English).

Civil Service Department, Ministry for Public Administration and Innovation, Italy

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08-Jun-2005

This website promotes initiatives to modernise the administration by aiming to improve its efficiency and minimise its administrative costs.

ICT Diffusion to Business: National Peer Reviews

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05-Jan-2005

These reports review the status of ICT diffusion to business in individual countries and describe current and earlier policies aimed at ICT uptake in firms in Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Korea, Norway and Switzerland.

ICT Diffusion to Business: Peer review - Country Report: Italy

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04-Jan-2005

Italy has a set of positive elements that can help diffuse ICTs to business, even if the economic structure is not everywhere conducive to diffusion. It can build on these strengths to accelerate the diffusion and effective use of ICTs by business.

ICT Investment and Economic Growth in the 1990s: Is the United States a Unique Case? A Comparative Study of Nine OECD Countries, STI Working Paper 2001/7

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25-Oct-2001

Alessandra Colecchia and Paul Schreyer

Investment in information technologies has by no means been confined to the United States and yet, average European or Japanese growth experience has been quite different.

Broadband Statistics

Now updated with data through December 2008

OECD Broadband Portal

Editor's Choice

The most recent comparable data on communication sector performance.

OECD Communications Outlook 2009