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03 June 2013
International Mobile Roaming Agreements OECD
This report explores principles that could form the basis for good practices in the establishment of international mobile roaming (IMR) agreements between two or more countries. Given the cross country nature of IMR services and, especially, the fact that wholesale prices are determined by...
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18 Apr 2013
Exploring Data-Driven Innovation as a New Source of Growth OECD
This report explores the potential role of data and data analytics for the creation of significant competitive advantage and for the formation of knowledge-based capital. Five sectors are discussed in this report as areas in which the use of data can stimulate innovation and productivity...
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17 Apr 2013
OECD Consumer Policy Toolkit Workshop on Communication Services OECD
In 2010, the OECD published its Consumer Policy Toolkit, which provides insights into ways that government agencies responsible for safeguarding consumer interests could improve their policy approaches to ensure that any interventions they make are well-justified, timely and effective. To...
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02 Apr 2013
Exploring the Economics of Personal Data OECD
This report takes an initial look at methodologies to measure and estimate the monetary value of personal data. Personal data is creating economic and social value at an increasing pace, but measuring and estimating the value being generated is difficult. This is because not only a huge amount...
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19 Mar 2013
Protecting and Empowering Consumers in the Purchase of Digital Content Products OECD
The spread of broadband, mobile devices and online and mobile payments usage are driving the expansion in digital content products. These can be downloaded, streamed or accessed through Internet Protocol (IP) TV on a range of channels including online retail platforms and social media. While...
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04 Mar 2013
Broadband Networks and Open Access OECD
This report examines "open access" policies and approaches in various contexts, including fixed and mobile access networks, backhaul and backbone networks, undersea cables and Internet exchange points (IXPs). It finds that open access arrangements share some common elements: they refer to...
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18 Feb 2013
The Relationship between Local Content, Internet Development and Access Prices OECD/ISOC/UNESCO
This research study is the result of a collaboration between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the Internet Society (ISOC) and UNESCO. The study was initially presented at the sixth annual meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) on 27 September 2011 in...
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05 Feb 2013
Empowering and Protecting Consumers in the Internet Economy OECD
This report is part of a series of papers in the follow-up work to the 2008 Seoul Ministerial Declaration for the Future of the Internet Economy. It shows that over the past five years, despite the financial crisis, business-to-consumer e-commerce has grown steadily across the OECD and beyond,...
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17 Jan 2013
Building Blocks for Smart Networks OECD
This report examines the development of smart networks and services with particular attention to the implications for communication policy and regulation. The word "smart" has become a term that is frequently affixed to an area where the introduction of networked information and communication...
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20 Dec 2012
Improving the Evidence Base for Information Security and Privacy Policies OECD
This report provides an overview of existing data and statistics in the fields of information security, privacy and the protection of children online. It highlights the potential for the development of better indicators in these respective fields showing in particular that there is an...
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18 Dec 2012
The Development and Diffusion of Digital Content OECD
Viewers are watching a growing share of video via Internet-based distribution systems. New digital content distribution services are having appreciable impacts on established media industries and network service providers in many OECD countries. The competitive landscape in media, already...
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16 Nov 2012
Non-governmental Perspectives on a New Generation of National Cybersecurity Strategies OECD
This document brings together views from business, civil society and the Internet technical community on the emergence of a new generation of national cybersecurity strategies. This input was used in developing the report on "Cybersecurity Policy Making at a Turning Point: Analysing a New...
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16 Nov 2012
Cybersecurity Policy Making at a Turning Point OECD
This report analyses the latest generation of "national cybersecurity strategies" in ten OECD countries and identifies commonalities and differences. The analysis reveals that cybersecurity policy making has become a national policy priority and relies on holistic strategies supported by...
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16 Nov 2012
Terms of Reference for the Review of the OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks OECD
These Terms of Reference set the context, objectives, scope and modalities for the second review of the 2002 Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks: Towards a Culture of Security.
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16 Nov 2012
The Role of the 2002 Security Guidelines: Towards Cybersecurity for an Open and Interconnected Economy OECD
This paper provides an overview of the history of the OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks: Towards a Culture of Security ("Security Guidelines") since the
adoption of their first version in 1992. It explains that the 2002 revision of the Guidelines introduced a...
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29 Oct 2012
E-books: Developments and Policy Considerations OECD
Books have undergone a massive transformation from a physical object to something entirely different: the electronic book, or "e-book". This report provides background on e-book markets and examines various policy issues related to e-books. These include differing tax rates in countries...
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29 Jan 2013
Internet Traffic Exchange Dennis Weller, Bill Woodcock
This report finds that the Internet has developed an efficient market for connectivity based on voluntary contractual agreements. Operating in a highly competitive environment, largely without regulation or central organisation, the Internet model of traffic exchange has produced low prices,...
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08 Oct 2012
Fixed and Mobile Networks OECD
This report examines the convergence of fixed and mobile (wireless) networks and services. It considers these developments against a long standing question of whether they are complementary or competitive. The report concludes that they are both. Mobile providers have garnered a very large...
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04 Sep 2012
Methodology for Constructing Wireless Broadband Price Baskets OECD
The OECD has adopted a new basket methodology for benchmarking wireless broadband prices. It adds to the existing baskets for voice, leased lines and fixed broadband services and reflects the increasing importance of wireless broadband for laptops, tablets and smartphones.
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17 Aug 2012
Report on Consumer Protection in Online and Mobile Payments OECD
An examination of payments issues is taking place in the context of the review of the OECD’s 1999 guidelines on e-commerce. This report looks at what might need to be amplified or revised to enhance consumer trust and adoption of new and emerging online and mobile payment mechanisms. It...
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27 July 2012
Universal Service Policies in the Context of National Broadband Plans Angela Garcia Calvo
This report discusses the main areas in which national strategies to expand broadband networks affect universal service objectives, proposes criteria to rethink the terms of universal service policies, and shares the latest developments across a selected group of OECD countries.
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30 Mar 2012
Review of the 2006 OECD Recommendation on Cross-Border Co-operation in the Enforcement of Laws Against SPAM OECD
In 2006 the OECD Council adopted a recommendation setting forth a framework for cross-border co-operation in the enforcement of laws against spam. This report provides information on the progress in implementation measures, mainly based on a questionnaire of OECD member’s experiences.
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14 Mar 2012
Laying the Foundation for the Internet Economy OECD
Since the Seoul Declaration, access to broadband networks and the Internet have constantly increased. In terms of fixed broadband, penetration levels are close to maturity. In addition, further deployments of fibre networks have taken place; however, overall deployment of fibre is still at an...
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05 June 2012
The Impact of Internet in OECD Countries OECD
This paper informs policymakers about ways the Internet impacts the economies, and about the levels and areas of impact. It is designed to structure and to assess the economic impacts areas of the Internet at the individual- firm-, and government-levels, as well as at the aggregate,...
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07 May 2012
Proactive Policy Measures by Internet Service Providers against Botnets OECD
Botnets are networks of compromised computers that are remotely controlled by malicious agents. They represent a threat to security and trust in online environments. Internet Service Providers (ISPs), by virtue of their ownership of the physical networks and consumer-facing position, are well...
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19 Apr 2012
ICT Skills and Employment OECD
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the Internet are increasingly viewed as a vital infrastructure for all sectors of the economy. Already, employment in the ICT industry and employment of ICT specialist skills each accounts for up to 5% of total employment in OECD countries...
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19 Apr 2012
Measuring the Broadband Bonus in Thirty OECD Countries Shane Greenstein, Ryan McDevitt
This paper provides estimates of the economic value created by broadband Internet using measures of new gross domestic product and consumer surplus. The study finds that the economic value created in 30 OECD countries correlates roughly with the overall size of their broadband economies. In...
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17 Apr 2012
Measuring the Impact of Innovations in Public IT Infrastructure on the Standard of Living in OECD Economies Russel J. Cooper
Advances in information technology (IT) in the first decade of the 21st century have highlighted the role of IT as an enabling technology throughout an economy. But although the influence of IT in transforming the way in which business and consumer transactions are done is clear to all...
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13 Apr 2012
Information and Communication Technologies and Productivity Growth Tobias Kretschmer
This paper presents a review of existing studies on dynamic, macroeconomic effects of the ICT on productivity and growth.
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13 Apr 2012
Measuring the Internet William Lehr
This working paper reviews a number of the challenges and opportunities confronting analysts interested in measuring the Internet and its economic and social impacts. It identifies several additional challenges to the measurement issue, in addition to all of the normal problems one expects when...
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28 Feb 2012
Developments in Mobile Termination OECD
Wholesale interconnection rates for mobile telephony service in the OECD area have decreased by 53% from 2006 to 2011. The charges, or mobile termination rates (MTRs), represent the fees that telecommunication network operators (fixed, mobile and VoIP) pay for delivering telephone calls to...
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30 Jan 2012
Machine-to-Machine Communications OECD
This document examines the future of machine-to-machine communication (M2M), with a particular focus on mobile wireless networks. M2M devices are defined, in this paper, as those that are actively communicating using wired and wireless networks, are not computers in the traditional sense and...
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27 Jan 2012
Estimation of Loss in Consumer Surplus Resulting from Excessive Pricing of Telecommunication Services in Mexico Marta Stryszowska
The present study evaluates the loss in consumer surplus caused by the low degree of competition in the Mexican telecommunication sector which results in relatively high prices, and also leads to lower levels of consumption across the range of telecommunication services. Econometric techniques...
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10 Jan 2012
ICT Applications for the Smart Grid OECD
The smart grid is revolutionizing electricity production and consumption. However, strategic use of ICTs and the Internet in energy innovation requires clarifying the roles of partners coming from distinct industries. And it begs for greater coordination of government departments and...
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20 Dec 2011
Digital Divide: From Computer Access to Online Activities – A Micro Data Analysis Pierre Montagnier, Albrecht Wirthmann
This study addresses issues of digital divide among households and individuals by using micro-data analysis of ICT usage patterns. The analysis includes data from 18 European countries, Korea and Canada. Inequalities in computer and Internet use are analysed in a two-step approach. First, the...
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08 Dec 2011
Measuring Digital Local Content Chris Bruegge
This paper discusses the ways to quantify the local content that can be delivered through the internet. Several indicators are proposed; for each indicator the paper discusses available data, presents strengths of a given measure and outlines its potential drawbacks.
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08 Dec 2011
Regulation of Transborder Data Flows under Data Protection and Privacy Law Christopher Kuner
Transborder data flows have become increasingly important in economic, political, and social terms over the 30 years since the adoption, in 1980, of the OECD Guidelines on the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data. A fundamental change in the business and technological...
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23 Nov 2011
Digital Identity Management for Natural Persons OECD
This report explains why digital identity management is fundamental for the further development of the Internet economy. It also provides guidance for digital identity strategies that support innovation across the public and private sectors while enhancing security, privacy and trust online.
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31 Oct 2011
Terms of Reference for the Review of the OECD Guidelines Governing the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Data Flows of Personal Data OECD
These terms of reference articulate a shared view among OECD members about key aspects of the current context for privacy protection and provide orientation for further work on the review of the OECD Privacy Guidelines in light of changing technologies, markets and user behaviour and the...
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17 June 2011
Virtual Worlds OECD
Virtual worlds are increasingly evolving into Internet-mediated "spaces", where large groups of people meet and interact in real-time while experiencing a shared sensation of being there together. This enables richer and more dynamic social interaction and collaboration across national and...
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20 June 2011
Next Generation Access Networks and Market Structure OECD
This report focuses on developments in broadband market structures emerging from the deployment of high-speed broadband services and the policy and regulatory implications.
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16 June 2011
Fibre Access OECD
This report examines recent developments regarding the use of fibre to provide local access networks for the provision of broadband access. Countries across the OECD are adopting different approaches to stimulate investment and to define the terms of competition to end-users in a Fibre to the...
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15 June 2011
National Broadband Plans OECD
This report surveys national broadband plans (NBP) across the OECD area, providing an overview of common elements and goals in those plans. An annex to this report contains references and links to the plans.
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30 May 2011
International Mobile Data Roaming OECD
Regulators and policy makers should boost competition among mobile telephone operators to cut the high prices being charged for international data roaming. Analysis of pricing plans at 68 operators in the 34 OECD countries points to a strong case for new consumer protection and empowerment measures.
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02 May 2011
The Protection of Children Online OECD
As increasing numbers of children worldwide enjoy the benefits of the Internet, they also face a spectrum of risks to which they are more vulnerable than adults. This report examines these risks as well as the policy responses of governments and other stakeholders to improve the protection of...
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27 Apr 2011
Report on the Implementation of the OECD Recommendation on Cross-border Co-operation in the Enforcement of Laws Protecting Privacy OECD
In 2007, the OECD Council adopted a Recommendation setting forth a framework for co-operation in the enforcement of privacy laws. This report provides information on the progress in implementation measures, which is based in part on a survey of OECD member countries’ experiences.
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31 Mar 2011
National Strategies and Policies for Digital Identity Management in OECD Countries OECD
This paper analyses and compares national strategies for digital identity management in OECD countries. These strategies aim to drive innovation for e-government and for the broader Internet economy while remaining consistent with current national identity practices.
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06 Apr 2011
The Evolving Privacy Landscape: 30 Years After the OECD Privacy Guidelines OECD
Thirty years ago OECD governments adopted a set of Guidelines governing the Protection of Privacy
and Transborder Flows of Personal Data. Faced with twin concerns about threats to privacy from more
intensive use of personal data and the risk to the global economy of restrictions on the flow of...
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21 Feb 2011
Broadband Bundling OECD
Bundling can provide both benefits and drawbacks to broadband customers. In general, bundled services are less expensive when purchased together and consumer surplus from one good in the bundle can help "subsidise" another less-valued element. Bundling also allows the integration of products in...
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30 June 2010
The Information and Communication Technology Sector in India OECD
apid growth in globally competitive Indian information technology services has helped to transform the Indian economy.
