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GDP should include digital economy
I disagree with your perception on “big data”. So long as only males are permitted to dominate the information technology field, law, medicine, and pretty much all employment sectors–what’s the fairness in that? That “big responsibility” you speak of has very little to do with responsible comportment involving any career field. But it has everything to do with people who intentionally obstruct many others from gain by perpetuating ancient beliefs, folklore, or voluntarily implementing abusive practices–instead of taking personal accountability for their evident discriminatory actions. Though I wish for success for my sons and grandsons, I also wish success, opportunity, and actual gain for their sisters, their wives, their grandmothers, their aunts, and their mothers. Don’t you?
Measuring GDP without fully considering the effects of digital economy is like pushing water uphill with a rake. Working in marketing at an online traveling company, I can reassure that the digital economy and especially the growing sharing economy is not fully counted for GDP. Using free digital services such as maps, search engines, news, videos, social networking, cloud storage, should be accounted for GDP because they are not really free. They produce knowledge on customers that generates revenues through advertising or the acquisition of “big data”. The digital age also creates alot of international knowledge assets, that may be free to use, such as Wikipedia or analytics, but has a lot of real value to users or the economy. I believe more work should be done to estimate those economic benefits so that we can make sure that this economy is more inclusive and equal. Digitalisation affects prices but it also effects the productivity and efficiency of our economy and also the quality of service, and all should be valued when measuring it. I suspect that more digitalised societies have better life quality and greater GDP, but more specific measurements are needed.
Please stop blaming “big data”. Time to speak facts of the matter. Take responsibility for your actions. Most women around this globe can validly say to most men: “We’ve been waiting for all of you to confess your role in obstructing our success.”
K Ann Campbell, commenting on “Big data, big responsibilities” at OECDInsights.org, https://oe.cd/2fn ––––– Why does it so often sound like women staying home and taking care of their children, or their elderly parents, are doing something fundamentally wrong?
Per Kurowski, commenting on “No longer a mancession: Getting Italian women out to work” on OECD Insights, March 2018, https://oe.cd/2eM
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Patrick Berg, commenting on “Measuring the economy in the age of digitalisation”, from OECD Observer No 307 Q3 2016, see www.oecdobserver.org
Only human I would add that perhaps the role of learning to be human is a “group” endeavour. Too many business and other schools in universities are focused on developing individuals. The future is
collective and human systems are more groupish than solitary. It will be interesting to see more multidisciplinarity at doctorate levels. I recommend everyone to look into group relations as a learning methodology.
Leslie Brissett, Forum Network member (www.oecdforum.org), commenting on “Learning to be Human: Universities in a world of rising inequality and technological change”, at https://oe.cd/2s7
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