OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2024 (Volume 1)
Embracing the Technology Frontier
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The OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2024, Volume 1: Embracing the Technology Frontier provides new insights on key technologies that underpin the digital technology ecosystem and their impacts. Using big data and machine-learning techniques, Volume 1 provides new estimates of the growth rate of the ecosystem’s core – the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. It then looks toward the technology frontier with perspectives on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and how it can be shaped into a positive force. Volume 1 also analyses how people, firms and governments are adopting digital technologies, offering insights into the scale and scope of digital divides and how to boost equal opportunity and inclusion. To that end, it looks at the critical need for next generation wireless networks to provide unlimited connectivity everywhere. Moving beyond the hype of immersive technologies, Volume 1 examines the proven ability of virtual reality (VR) to scale, while identifying its opportunities and risks. Finally, it shines a spotlight on mental health in digital environments, including those most at risk.
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Digital technology diffusion and data
Digital technologies and data have dramatically changed the way people live and work, how and in which markets firms operate, and the ways in which governments interact with citizens. This brings many opportunities, as well as new challenges. As governments and the private sector increasingly shift from offline to online service provision, access and effective use of digital technologies become critical for equal opportunity and inclusion. Technologies such as cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) have diffused rapidly in recent years. However, productivity growth remains slow, including in digital-intensive sectors. Adoption of data-dependent technologies also remains low. This chapter considers both issues in turn before highlighting policy actions to make digital technologies and data more inclusive and productive.
Also available in: French
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