OECD digital economy outlook 2017.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, author, issuing body.

Contributor:

OECD Staff, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations.

Technological innovations--Economic aspects--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, graphs

Place of Publication:

Paris, [France] : OECD, 2017.

Summary:

The OECD Digital Economy Outlook examines and documents the evolutions and emerging opportunities and challenges in the digital economy. It highlights how OECD countries and partner economies are taking advantage of ICTs and the Internet to meet their public policy objectives.

Contents:

Foreword

Table of contents

Executive Summary

Governments are waking up to the opportunities and challenges brought by digital transformation

Despite the ongoing effects of the crisis, information technology services continue to grow and spur a positive outlook

Developing apace, communication infrastructures and services are upgrading for a new surge of data

ICT usage keeps growing but remains unequally distributed across countries and among firms and individuals Digital innovation and new business models are driving transformation, including of jobs and tradeEffective use of ICTs in life and for work requires more specialist and generic skills in ICTs complemented by better foundational skills

Concerns about digital security and privacy restrain ICT adoption and business opportunities

The promises of artificial intelligence are accompanied by important policy and ethical questions

The potential of blockchain hinges on grappling with technical hurdles and policy challenges List of acronyms, abbreviations and units of measurePart I Policies

Chapter 1 Going digital

The digital transformation is high on the global agenda

The 2016 CancÃðn Ministerial on the Digital Economy has set the OECD agenda for the digital transformation

Box 1.1. The main messages from the CancÃðn Ministerial

The digital transformation of the economy and society

An ecosystem of digital technologies drives the ongoing transformation of economies and societies

Identifying avenues to understand how the digital transformation affects policies Box 1.2. Vectors of digital transformationKey policy and measurement building blocks for the digital transformation

Building the foundations for the digital transformation

Figure 1.1. Framework conditions for the digital transformation

Figure 1.2. Access to digital infrastructures

Making the digital transformation work for the economy and society

Figure 1.3. Business uptake of digital technologies

Figure 1.4. Use of digital technologies by Internet users

Figure 1.5. Digital skills, tertiary education and training Figure 1.6. ICT-related innovationsFigure 1.7. Digital security and trust

Figure 1.8. Digitalisation and society

The current state of national digital strategies

National digital strategies have become the norm across the OECD

Box 1.3. The EU Digital Single Market

Policy objectives pursued by national digital strategies are high priority

Table 1.1. Priority ranking of policy objectives for digital developments

Approaches to governing national digital strategies vary across countries

Table 1.2. National digital strategy governance

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 24, 2017).

ISBN:

92-64-27628-9

OCLC:

1009333528