OECD Observer i-Sheet: Going Digital

Special on the occasion of the OECD Going Digital Summit, 11-12 March 2019

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Going digital Digital technologies and data are transformational as people, firms and governments live, interact, work and produce differently than in the past. These changes are accelerating, and new disruptive innovations lie ahead. Are we prepared for change? How can we manage the risks and realise the immense promises of digital technologies and data for growth and well-being?

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Going digital: Opening remarks

Going digital: Back to the future

Angel Gurría, Secretary-General of the OECD

Andrew Wyckoff, Director, and Joseph Loux, OECD Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate

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Productivity growth in the digital age

Where are all the women in tech?

Ileana Epsztajn, OECD Observer

Are digital technologies the new Holy Grail?

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Can the fourth industrial revolution catalyse increased equality between the sexes, or should we be fearing instead that it will even further marginalise women in the workplace?

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Digital gender divide: Yes, girls can!

Digitalisation is changing global tax rules

Gabriela Ramos, OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20, urges girls to set their ambitions high and calls on policymakers to break down the policy barriers that are holding women back.

OECD Podcast with Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy, on changing tax rules to address the 21st century’s globalised and digitalising economy.

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Clara Young, OECD Observer

Smart communications technology has enabled people to hire themselves out as independently contracting workers. But what is the status of these workers, and what are the challenges of the so-called gig economy?

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Fighting corruption one YouTube video at a time Balázs Gyimesi, OECD Observer

The Greece-OECD campaign demonstrated the real potential of civic engagement and highlighted the bright side of social media.

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Are platform workers really their own boss?

Konilo, one of Greece’s most popular vloggers (right), interviewing young Athenians on Ermou Street.

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Trust is the key to unlocking data

The dark side of the digital economy: Bad things come in small packages

Michael Keenan, Minister for Human Services and Digital Transformation, Australia

Data is the fuel powering our new digital economy. However, news of data breaches and misuse of personal information erodes trust and leads the public to believe that data is bad or something to be feared.

Michael Morantz, OECD Public Governance Directorate

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Small package trade is facilitating the global trade in counterfeits. The total value of fakes shipped globally was $US461 billion in 2013, or 2.5% of global trade, the OECD’s Task Force on Countering Illicit Trade estimates.

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Left behind or leapfrogging ahead?

Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director, Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities

How have local firms and their workers been adapting to automation?

How can policy help?

The political challenge today is to narrow the gap between those being left behind and those leapfrogging ahead. And there’s a geographical dimension to that disparity too.

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Turin: A city laboratory for innovation

Governments are key enablers of an equitable digital transition

Paola Pisano, Deputy Mayor for Innovation, Smart City, Demographic and Statistical Services and Information Systems, City of Torino, Italy

José António Vieira da Silva, Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, Portugal

We must develop a new model and organisation for work, and public administrations must take into account the social impact of automation.

Governments have an important role to play and a unique ability to mobilise multiple stakeholders.

Preparing the SME workforce for the fourth industrial revolution

Our responsibility is to make the future inclusive and sustainable

Iris Arbel, Innovation Management Expert, Innovation Consultant for SMEs and Lecturer, Technion and Bar-Ilan universities, Israel

Nicolas Hazard, Founder and President, INCO

Our education, training programmes and public policies must adapt to the new realities of automation.

National regulation must continue to support the transition from traditional skills to more advanced, technology-based skills.

Towards local job creation in an automated world

Rethinking citizen-centred policy design and delivery

Sally Sinclair, CEO, National Employment Services Association (NESA), Australia

Sunil Johal, Policy Director, Mowat Centre, University of Toronto

In a world of constrained resources, better data about which programmes are working well will become more important.

Targeted skills’ training, support of the most vulnerable, and flexible labour markets can form a stable bridge to the next generation of work.

DATABANK

The funding crowd With bank lending declining, smaller businesses are looking for alternative ways of financing. Thanks to the world wide web, they can now solicit funds not just from banks and professional investors, but from virtually anyone with internet access.

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Source: OECD (2018). Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2018: An OECD Scoreboard

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Going Digital: OECD’s Andrew Wyckoff on the digital transformation https://bit.ly/2UmUIiX

Does technology increase productivity? The brave new world of artificial intelligence https://bit.ly/2SN8een https://bit.ly/2VwGo7U

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OECD moves forward on developing guidelines for artificial intelligence

AI and digitalisation for workforce training and assistance

Wonki Min, Vice Minister, Korean Ministry of Science and ICT, and Chair of the OECD Committee on Digital Economy Policy

Gregorio Ameyugo, Deputy Director, LIST institute, CEA

Developing AI principles is part of the OECD’s work over the past two years in examining the impact of new technologies on society through the multidisciplinary Going Digital and Next Production Revolution projects.

The key challenge to reaping the full benefits of digitally delivered training and assistance systems lies in the training material itself. AI has begun to provide solutions to this challenge.

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Solar Village: Let’s search for a brighter tomorrow

A digital world for all: Include, upskill, innovate to bridge the digital gender divide

Meaghan McElroy, Auroville Consulting

While it is no surprise to hear that connecting to the internet requires a power source, one may be surprised to learn that the internet can also give energy in return, to power a village for example.

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Chris Diskin and Mariagrazia Squicciarini, OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation

There is a significant danger that we could transfer today’s inequalities into tomorrow’s digital future. We must proactively work to avoid this risk.

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