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[IWS] OECD: FUTURE of the INTERNET ECONOMY - BACKGROUND INFORMATION

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OECD Ministerial Meeting: The Future of the Internet Economy on 17-18 June 2008 in Seoul, S. Korea

FUTURE of the INTERNET ECONOMY -- BACKGROUND INFORMATION
http://www.oecd.org/document/57/0,3343,en_21571361_38415463_38628601_1_1_1_1,00.html

Reports include

Broad-ranging papers

The OECD Observer "Guarding the Net" (January 2008)
The OECD Observer "The Internet economy: Towards a better future" (November 2007)
"Social and Economic factors Shaping the Future of the Internet" -- workshop proceedings (July 2007)
NSF/OECD Workshop "Social and Economic Factors Shaping the Future of the Internet", Washington D.C.  (January 2007)
Proceedings of 8 March 2006 workshop "the Future of the Internet" (August 2006)
OECD input to the United Nations Working Group on Internet Governance (2005)


Creativity

    *Participative web: user-created content (April 2007)
    *UNCTAD Expert Meeting: Using ICTs to Achieve Growth and Development (December 2006)
    *Workshop on Online Audiovisual Services, Film and Video: Issues for Achieving Growth and Policy Objectives (September 2006)
    *OECD Workshop on Access to Public Sector Information and Content (December 2006)
    *ICT industry growth to increase by 6% in 2006, says OECD (October 2006)
    *Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID): Drivers, Challenges and Public Policy Considerations (February 2006)

Confidence

    *OECD Workshop on Digital Identity Management (IDM) - Trondheim, Norway (May 2007)
    *APEC TEL and OECD joint workshop on malware (April 2007)
    *The Development of Policies for the Protection of Critical Information Infrastructures (CII) (March 2007)
    *Mobile Commerce ­ consumer issues and policy challenges for a promising market (January 2007)
    *Cross-border Enforcement of Privacy Laws (October 2006)

Convergence

    *IPTV: Market Developments and Regulatory Treatment (January 2008)
    * OECD launches new broadband portal
    *Communications Outlook 2007 (July 2007)
    *Overview of the evolution towards fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) (March 2007)
    *Mobile Multiple Play: New Service Pricing and Policy Implications (January 2007)
    * Policy considerations for audio-visual content distribution in a multiplatform environment (January 2007)
    *OECD Foresight Forum "Next Generation Networks: Evolution and Policy Considerations": Summary Report (February 2007)
    *Internet Traffic Exchange: Market Developments and Measurement of Growth (April 2006)
    *Rethinking universal service for a next generation network environment (April 2006)
    *Policy considerations of VoIP (March 2006)

Preparatory Meetings

The OECD has held several workshops, the aim of which is to feed substantively into its meeting at Ministerial level on the Future of the Internet Economy on 17-18 June 2008. These include:

    *ICCP Foresight Forum on the "Participative Web", 3 October 2007, Ottawa, Canada
    *NSF/OECD Workshop on "Social and Economic Factors Shaping the Future of the Internet", 31 January 2007, Washington D.C., United States
    *ICCP Foresight Forum on "Next Generation Networks (NGN)", 3 October 2006, Budapest, Hungary
    *NSF/OECD Workshop on "the Future of the Internet", 8 March 2006, Paris, France
    *"The Future Digital Economy: Digital content: Creation, Access and distribution", 30-31 January 2006, Rome, Italy
    *ICCP Foresight Forum on "Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID)", October 2005, Paris, France

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