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OECD indicators on data, its impact and governance

Data governance for growth and well-being

The OECD Going Digital project aims to help policy makers better understand the digital transformation and develop appropriate policies to help shape a positive digital future. This portal brings together OECD indicators on data, its impact and governance, which is a current focus of the project.

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Digital goods and services have become much cheaper and more powerful over time

Advances in digital hardware have reduced the costs of collecting, processing and storing data. The cost of both computer processing power and data storage have halved every 15 months in real terms over the second half of the last century while the price of software started falling at a much more moderate rate of about 2% per year from the early 1980s.

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Indicators by theme

Trends in data and data flows

Indicators on the growing volume of data, and capacity to process and store it.

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Data-enabling and data-enabled technologies

Indicators on adoption of digital technologies by businesses such as cloud computing as well as AI and smart applications.

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Well-being and society

Indicators on societal aspects of data governance, including health care, research and science, education, public governance, smart cities and development cooperation.

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Business innovation and productivity

Economic aspects of data and data governance, in particular on the use of data to help unleash business innovation and boost productivity.

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Trust and risks of data misuse

Indicators on the risks and challenges of data governance that relate to trust, privacy and individual rights.

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Data policies and regulations

Trends in the adoption of policies and regulations in areas such as health, open government, cross-border data flows, and data access and use in SMEs.

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Roadmap for measuring the value of data and data flows

Experimental indicators to conceptualise and measure the value of data, databases and data flows.

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OECD work on data governance

Going Digital Project

Going Digital Toolkit