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Il faut saisir les opportunités offertes par les technologies numériques pour améliorer le bien‑être, mais aussi parer aux risques

Selon un nouveau rapport de l’OCDE, les technologies numériques peuvent nous aider à mieux vivre, mais elles risquent aussi d’accentuer les inégalités sociales et de barrer la route à ceux d’entre nous qui ne possèdent pas les compétences nécessaires pour évoluer dans le cyberenvironnement en toute sécurité.

How's Life in the Digital Age? - Opportunities and Risks of the Digital Transformation for People's Well-being

La communauté internationale a accompli d’importants progrès sur les défis fiscaux soulevés par la numérisation de l’économie

L’OCDE annonce aujourd’hui que la communauté internationale a fait d’importants progrès vers l’obtention d’une solution permettant de traiter les défis fiscaux soulevés par la numérisation de l’économie, et s’accorde à continuer de travailler de manière multilatérale afin de trouver une solution de long terme fondée sur le consensus d’ici 2020.

At G20 Summit OECD’s Gurría says collective action vital to tackle global challenges

International cooperation and collective action are critical to tackling the world’s major challenges, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría said following the G20 Leaders’ Summit held in Buenos Aires amid heightened trade tensions but at which important advances were made on a number of priorities of Argentina’s presidency.

More needs to be done to bridge the digital gender divide

Barriers to access, education and skills, as well as ingrained socio-cultural biases, are driving a digital gender divide that is holding back women’s participation in the digital economy, according to a new OECD report.

La Suède est très en avance dans le domaine de la transformation numérique, mais des progrès restent à faire

Selon une nouvelle étude de l’OCDE, les efforts déployés par la Suède afin d’accompagner la transition vers le numérique ont fortement stimulé sa croissance économique au cours des dernières années.

Toolkit for protecting digital consumers

Despite the benefits and convenience of e-commerce, the ease and speed with which consumers can engage in online transactions – at anytime, anywhere, and in particular across borders – may create situations that are unfamiliar to them and put their interests at risk. This toolkit provides a set of principles and practices for protecting digital consumers and enhancing trust in e-commerce.

Consumer policy and the smart home

Connected devices and appliances offer added convenience but also bring potential risks such as data privacy and cybersecurity threats, limitations on interoperability, complex supply chains and liability regimes, and product safety. Developing effective responses to the consumer protection issues that arise from the "smart home" will be an ongoing challenge.

Consumer product safety in the Internet of Things

There is an argument that the IoT brings new challenges for product safety and that regulatory regimes will need to be adapted. However, others argue that although the products are new, the issues are not necessarily novel and existing regulations are sufficient. This report highlights some key issues that confront product safety policy makers in this important area.

Consumer protection enforcement in a global digital marketplace

This report examines information on consumer protection enforcement authorities of OECD member and non-member countries, especially on the ability of these authorities to co-operate across borders. It is based on questionnaire responses from 31 countries, supplemented by additional research.