This report presents key insights and policy messages from the OECD Going Digital project, which was carried out over 2017-18 under the leadership of the OECD Committee on Digital Economy Policy, chaired by Wonki Min (Korea). The OECD Going Digital project is led by the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation, under the leadership and guidance of Andrew Wyckoff, Director; Dirk Pilat, Deputy Director; and Anne Carblanc, Head of the Digital Economy Policy Division. Molly Lesher served as the Project Co-ordinator of the first phase (2017-18) of the project.
This report was co-ordinated and drafted by Molly Lesher, David Gierten and Angela Attrey. It draws on contributions from the OECD Secretariat from nine OECD Directorates, including the Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (Brigitte Acoca, Matej Bajgar, Laurent Bernat, Frédéric Bourassa, Sarah Box, Sara Calligaris, Flavio Calvino, François Chantret, Agnès Cimper, Alessandra Colecchia, Chiara Criscuolo, Gallia Daor, Timothy DeStefano, Michael Donohue, Alexia Gonzalez-Fanfalone, Dominique Guellec, Peter Horvát, Nick Johnstone, Daniel Ker, Elif Köksal-Oudot, Anna-Sophie Liebender, Christopher Lomax, Luca Marcolin, Pierre Montagnier, Alistair Nolan, Sam Paltridge, Caroline Paunov, Karine Perset, Lorrayne Porciuncula, Carthage Smith, Vincenzo Spiezia, Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze, Elettra Ronchi, Mariagrazia Squicciarini, Jonathan Timmis, Kila Walser, Colin Webb, Verena Weber and Jeremy West); the Centre for Tax Policy and Administration (Andrew Auerbach, David Bradbury, Julien Jarrige, Giorgia Maffini, Caroline Malcolm and Anna Milanez); the Statistics and Data Directorate (Nadim Ahmad, Fabienne Fortanier, John Mitchell, Fabrice Murtin, Jennifer Ribarsky, Paul Schreyer, Vincent Siegerink, Peter van de Ven and Jorrit Zwijnenburg); the Economics Department (Peter Gal, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Stéphane Sorbe and Christina Timiliotis); the Directorate for Education and Skills (Stéphanie Jamet, Deborah Roseveare and Stéphan Vincent-Lancrin); the Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs (Stijn Broecke and Paolo Falco); the Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs (Sean Ennis, Stephen Lumpkin, Mathilde Mesnard, Flore-Anne Messy and Gert Wehinger); the Directorate for Public Governance (Jack Radisch, Jacob Arturo Rivera Pérez, Barbara Ubaldi and João Vasconcelos); and the Trade and Agriculture Directorate (Rachel Bae, Francesca Casalini, Gwendolen Deboe, Janos Ferencz, Javier López González, Marie-Agnes Jouanjean, Julia Nielson and Hildegunn Kyvik Nordås). Other OECD Directorates and bodies that were actively involved in the OECD Going Digital project include the Environment Directorate (Shardul Agrawala, Elisabetta Cornago and Tobias Udsholt); the International Energy Agency (Jan Bartos, Simon Bennett, Laura Cozzi, George Kamiya, Luis Munuera and Dave Turk); the Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (Marco Bianchini and Lucia Cusmano); the Foresight Unit of the Office of the Secretary-General (Duncan Cass-Beggs, Joshua Polchar and Julia Staudt); and the International Transport Forum (Tom Voege).
This report also benefited from editing and formatting assistance from Jennifer Allain, Sarah Ferguson and Angela Gosmann. Sylvain Fraccola designed the infographics and Christoph Schmid (Interactive Things) created the graphic designs. Thanks also go to Vincent Finat-Duclos and Shayne MacLachlan from the OECD Public Affairs and Communications Directorate for broader assistance on communication, messaging and publication.
The OECD Going Digital project involved 14 OECD Committees: the Committee on Digital Economy Policy; Competition Committee; Committee on Consumer Policy; Committee on Fiscal Affairs; Committee on Industry, Innovation and Entrepreneurship; Committee on Financial Markets; Committee on Statistics and Statistics Policy; Committee on Scientific and Technological Policy; Economic Policy Committee; Education Policy Committee; Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee; Insurance and Private Pensions Committee; Public Governance Committee and the Trade Committee. This report was also reviewed by the Going Digital Steering Group, composed of representatives from the above mentioned OECD Committees, OECD member countries, as well as four stakeholder groups: Business at the OECD, the Civil Society Information Society Advisory Council, the Internet Technical Advisory Committee and the Trade Union Advisory Committee.
The OECD Going Digital project greatly benefited from discussions in the Friends of Going Digital group, composed of the Ambassadors of OECD members and partners, and in the Going Digital Expert Advisory Group, members of which include Marjory Blumenthal, Nicolas Colin, Peter Gluckman, Yuko Harayama, Nicola Hazell, Malavika Jayaram, Janis Karklins, Kevin Lynch, Ann Mettler, Diego Molano Vega, Geoff Mulgan, Diego Piacentini, David Weil and Lan Xue.