OECD Summit on Going Digital

‌  11-12 March 2019  OECD Conference Centre, Paris

‌  Webcast replays available below

The OECD Going Digital Summit was the high-level closing event of the two-year Going Digital Project. We presented the project's main findings and policy messages, including the final synthesis report, its companion publication on Measuring the Digital Transformation, and the Going Digital Toolkit, a new website that will grow to include indicators, evidence, experiences and innovative policy practices.

The summit brought together high-level policy makers responsible for policies related to the digital economy and key stakeholders, to exchange views and share practices and experiences in key areas of policy, look toward the future, and provide ideas for future OECD work. The agenda reflected the seven pillars of the OECD’s Going Digital integrated policy framework: enhancing access, increasing effective use, unleashing innovation, ensuring jobs, promoting social prosperity, strengthening trust and fostering market openness.

The event was streamed live. Webcast replays are available below. For further information, please contact goingdigital@oecd.org. 

 Agenda in English |  Agenda in French |  Speaker bios |  Summary of discussions

  Watch the replays (session rooms indicated below)

• Monday morning sessions: Room CC1 | Room CC15
• Monday afternoon sessions: Room CC1 | Room CC15
• Tuesday morning sessions: Room CC1 | Room CC15
• Tuesday afternoon sessions: Room CC1 | Room CC15

9:00-9:40
Opening plenary (Room CC1)

• Opening remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General
• Keynote by Peter Pellegrini, Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic

Launch of main Going Digital project deliverables:

• Going Digital: Shaping Policies, Improving Lives (synthesis report)
• Measuring the Digital Transformation: A Roadmap for the Future
• OECD Going Digital Toolkit website

9:40-10:40
Plenary (Room CC1)

This session will focus on the need for comprehensive, whole-of-government strategies for digital transformation, and will explore national experiences in developing such strategies.

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11:10-12:00
Plenary (Room CC1)

This session brought together key stakeholders from business (BIAC), trade unions (TUAC), civil society (CSISAC) and the Internet technical community (ITAC), enabling them to formulate their input to the OECD’s Going Digital and future work.

12:10-13:00
Parallel sessions

• 4A: Monitoring the digital transformation and measuring its impacts (Room CC15)
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• 4B: Digital transformation for development (Room CC1)
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These sessions explored two key elements of digital transformation: the need for sound evidence and indicators, and the application of the digital transformation in developing countries.

14:30-15:25
Parallel sessions

• 5A: Ensuring connectivity for all (Room CC1)
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• 5B: Bridging the digital gender divide (Room CC15)
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Policy note

• Enhancing access and connectivity to harness digital transformation

15:35-16:30
Parallel sessions

• 6A: Fostering science and innovation in the digital age (Room CC15)
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• 6B: Making digital transformation work for all businesses (Room CC1)
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Policy notes

• Fostering science and innovation in the digital age
• Productivity growth in the digital age

17:00-17:55
Parallel sessions

• 7A: Taxation in the digital age (Room CC1)
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• 7B: Policy making in the digital age (Room CC15)
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Policy note

• Tax and digitalisation

17:55-18:30
Plenary (Room CC1)

This session briefly summarised insights from the day, including the afternoon’s parallel sessions.

9:00-10:00
Plenary (Room CC1)

This session focused on the future of work and how to ensure jobs in the digital age.

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Policy note

• Preparing for the changing nature of work in the digital era

10:00-11:00
Plenary (Room CC1)

This session explored the education and skills aspects of the OECD’s Going Digital policy framework.

It focused on how to improve education and foster skills for the digital age.

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11:30-12:30
Parallel sessions

• 11A. Trade and investment in the digital age (Room CC1)
   
• 11B. Competition in the digital age (Room CC15)
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 Policy notes

• Trade in the digital era
  
• Unpacking e-commerce

13:30-14:20
Plenary (Room CC1)

This session involved an informal dialogue to explore the evolving agenda for digital transformation in a number of key international fora, i.e. the G20, G7, APEC and ASEAN.

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14:20-15:10
Plenary (Room CC1)

This session explored the OECD Going Digital policy framework pillar on ensuring trust.

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Policy note

• Data in the digital age

15:20-16:10
Parallel sessions

• 14A: Ensuring well-being in the digital age
  (Room CC15)
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• 14B: Strengthening digital government
  (Room CC1)

These sessions explored the Going Digital policy framework pillar on society.

Policy notes

• Well-being in the digital age
• Strengthening digital government

16:40-17:30
Parallel sessions

• 15A: Realising the promise of blockchain
  (Room CC15)
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• 15B: Artificial intelligence: The way forward
  (Room CC1)
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These sessions explored two elements that will be at core of planned OECD work on digital transformation in 2019 and 2020.

Policy note

• Blockchain at the OECD

17:30-18:10
Plenary (Room CC1)

This plenary session drew conclusions from Summit discussions and explored next steps that the OECD could take on digital transformation.

18:10-18:15
Plenary (Room CC1)

OECD Director for Science, Technology and Innovation Andrew Wyckoff closed the event.