
Policy Area
Digital Transformation
POLICY BRIEFS
Policy Briefs contain recommendations or visions and cover policy areas that are of interest to G20 policymakers. The majority of the Policy Briefs has been developed by a corresponding Think20 Task Force.
T20 Recommendations reports tie related policy proposals made under different G20 Presidencies into a common policy advice framework. They aim to leverage connections between T20 research organizations as well as other stakeholders to address well-defined global problems, in order to support G20 policymakers and to aid business and civil society organizations in complementing G20 policy efforts.
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G20 2020
Delivering economic value and societal cohesion through “Good Jobs” -
G20 2020
Fostering a safer cyberspace for children -
G20 2020
Strengthening the convention on the rights of the child (CRC): Governing children’s digital world -
G20 2020
A human development approach to measuring and improving the digital livelihoods of vulnerable populations -
G20 2020
(Re)skilling employees for future work: How G20 countries can use artificial intelligence-based learning technologies to scale up workplace training -
G20 2020
Rebuilding the livelihoods of forcibly displaced populations using digital financial inclusion -
G20 2020
A step to implementing the G20 principles on artificial intelligence: Ensuring data aggregators and AI firms operate in the interests of data subjects -
G20 2020
Educating girls and the marginalized in the digital and transformative innovation age: To make “Leaving no one behind” a reality -
G20 2020
Minding the gaps in digital financial education strategies -
G20 2020
Digital Trade in a Post-Pandemic Data-Driven Economy -
G20 2020
Leveraging the Digital Transformation for Development: A Global South Strategy for the Data-driven Economy -
G20 2020
The Data-driven Economy: Implications for Canada’s Economic Strategy -
G20 2020
Rethinking Policy in a Digital World -
G20 2020
Standards for Cybersecure IoT Devices: A Way Forward -
G20 2020
Standards for the Digital Economy: Creating an Architecture for Data Collection, Access and Analytics -
G20 2020
Data Standards Task Force for Digital Cooperation -
G20 2020
Implementing a National Data Strategy: The Need for Innovative Public Consultations -
G20 2020
Overcoming Gender Disparity in Cybersecurity Profession -
G20 2020
Minding the Gaps in Digital Financial Education Strategies -
G20 Japan
Digital Innovation Can Improve Financial Access for SMEs -
G20 Japan
The Digital Economy for Economic Development: Free Flow of Data and Supporting Policies -
G20 Japan
New Opportunities in the Platform Economy: On-ramps to Formalization in the Global South -
G20 Japan
How to Promote Worker Wellbeing in the Platform Economy in the Global South -
G20 Japan
The G20 and the Reskilling Effort to Bring the Fourth Industrial Revolution to Emerging Countries: Some Insights from Latin America -
G20 Japan
Bridging the Gap Between Digital Skills and Employability for Vulnerable Populations -
G20 Japan
Rethinking Pathways to Employment: Technical and Vocational Training for The Digital Age -
G20 Japan
Lifelong Learning and Education Policies to Capture Digital Gains -
G20 Japan
The Need to Promote Digital Financial Literacy for the Digital Age -
G20 Japan
Industrialization and Growth in Digital Age: Disruptions and Opportunities for Employment Led Growth in Asia and Africa -
G20 Japan
Fostering Human Dimension of the Digital Education -
G20 Japan
Tax Challenges of Digitalization in Africa -
G20 Japan
Industrial Development and ICT in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Way Forward -
G20 Japan
Leaving No One Behind: Measuring the Multidimensionality of Digital Literacy in the Age of AI and other Transformative Technologies -
G20 Argentina
A Future of Work that Works for Women -
G20 Argentina
Harnessing the opportunities of inclusive technologies in a global economy -
G20 Argentina
A Social Ecosystem Model: A New Paradigm for Skills Development? -
T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
World of Work in the 4th Industrial Revolution: Inclusive and Structural Transformation for a Better Africa -
G20 Argentina
Evaluating options for funding and financing post-compulsory education -
G20 Argentina
Can education and skills development be more aligned locally reflecting local work patterns, business growth? -
T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
Towards a G20 Framework For Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace -
G20 Argentina
Data, Measurement and Initiatives for Inclusive Digitalization and Future of Work -
T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
A New Social Contract for the Digital Age -
T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
Technological Justice: A G20 Agenda -
T20 Co-Chair Brief
G20 Argentina
Technological Innovation and the Future of Work: A View From the South -
T20 Co-Chair Brief
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Global Solutions Journal G20/T20 Italy 2021 Edition
The Global Solutions Journal G20/T20 Italy 2021 Edition focuses on Italy’s G20 priorities, overcoming the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Digital Governance and New Measurement.
Authors from various sectors – politics, research, academia, business, and civil society – have contributed to this multifaceted edition.
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S20 Saudi Arabia Communique
S20 Saudi Arabia 2020: Read the Communique here.
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B20 Summary of Recommendations
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G20 Global Pandemic Preparedness: Attending to Access to Education & Employment
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New Approaches to Economic Challenges
The OECD has invited Nobel laureates and many of the world’s leading thinkers from government, the private sector and academia to debate innovative approaches to the major questions facing humanity. This series summarises their analyses and proposals on the interlinked challenges facing our societies, environment and economies: from the climate emergency to inequality, the digital economy, or the financial system. The OECD’s New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) initiative was launched in 2012 to investigate the roots and lessons of the financial crisis, and renew and strengthen analytical and policy approaches with fresh thinking, engaged research and dialogue.
Read the report here.
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The present challenges for an inclusive, dignifying and sustainable future of work
The purpose of this paper is to help understand some of the challenges associated with accelerated digitalization and automation and, in this way, attempt to contribute to the path for a fairer, more inclusive, dignifying and sustainable future of work.
Read Global Solutions Fellow Beatriz Nofal‘s paper here.
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T20 Statement on Reskilling Employees for the Future of Work
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L20 Statement to the G20 Labour and Employment Ministers’ Meeting, 9-10 September 2020
In a current statement, the L20 demand from G20 leaders a new social contract that rebuilds trust and security for the world’s people and takes health, social and economic impacts of the Covid-19 crisis equally into consideration.
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G20 Japan: AI Principles
The G20 supports the principles for responsible stewardship of Trustworthy AI in Section 1 (of this document) and takes note of the recommendations in Section 2 (of this document).
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Cyber Risk, Market Failures, and Financial Stability
This paper considers the properties of cyber risk, discusses why the private market can fail to provide the socially optimal level of cybersecurity, and explore how systemic cyber risk interacts with other financial stability risks. Furthermore, it elaborates on information asymmetries and inefficiencies in the management of cyber risk and proposes policy measures that can increase the resilience of the financial system to systemic cyber risk.
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Key Issues for Digital Transformation in the G20
Digital technologies may be disruptive, with far-reaching effects on productivity, employment and well-being. While new technologies create opportunities for businesses (especially SMEs), workers and citizens to engage in economic activity, these technologies are also likely to displace workers doing specific tasks and may further increase existing gaps in access and use, resulting in new digital divides and greater inequality.
OECD Report: Key Issues for Digital Transformation in the G20
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Is Modern Technology Responsible for Jobless Recoveries?
This paper is examining the relationship between recoveries from recessions and employment growth. The main conclusion derived from the findings is that in developed countries outside the US, modern technologies are unlikely to be causing jobless recoveries.
Is Modern Technology Responsible for Jobless Recoveries?; by Georg Graetz and Guy Michaels
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The Rise and Nature of Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States, 1995-2015
This paper serves to evaluate of some leading explanations with regard to factors that have contributed to the large increase in the incidence of alternative work arrangements for American workers from 2005 to 2015.
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Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy
Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and related fields have opened up new markets and
new opportunities for progress in critical areas such as health, education, energy, economic inclusion,
social welfare, and the environment. The analysis and recommendations included herein draw on insights learned over the course of the Future of AI Initiative, which was announced in May of 2016, and included Federal Government coordination efforts and crosssector and public outreach on AI and related policy matters. -
Noahpinion: Is Twitter a dystopian technology?
The author of this blogpost has been wondering whether Twitter is a true dystopian technology. Meaning, a technology that makes each user better off, but makes the world worse off as a whole.He writes that one does not need a dystopian technology to create a dystopia. The question is whether some technologies, merely by existing, push the world toward a bad equilibrium. -
Open-sourcing DeepMind Lab
DeepMind Lab is a fully 3D game-like platform tailored for agent-based AI research. It is observed from a first-person viewpoint, through the eyes of the simulated agent. Scenes are rendered with rich science fiction-style visuals. The available actions allow agents to look around and move in 3D.
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Quill – Advanced natural language generation platform
Quill creates applications that use natural language generation or NLG software to ingest data and then completely mimic the steps an analyst would take to write a report. Users of Quill have complete control over the language, analytics and formatting to customize just about anything they want.
Quill – Advanced natural language generation platform
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OECD and the Future of Work – Skills for a Digital World
Ensuring that everyone has the right skills for an increasingly digital and globalised world is essential to
promote inclusive labour markets and to spur innovation, productivity and growth. This OECD policy brief presents four key priorities for skills policies to meet the challenges of a digital world.OECD and the Future of Work – Skills for a Digital World
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Skill measures to mobilise the workforce during the COVID-19 crisis
This policy brief investigates how countries responded to immediate shortages of workers during the COVID‑19 crisis. It first identifies which jobs were in demand using online vacancy data and describes the skills profiles of those jobs. By comparing them with the skills profiles of similar jobs in low demand, it considers the viability of redeploying unemployed adults to jobs where hiring is increasing. The brief shares examples of innovative ways in which countries retrained and redeployed their labour force to meet immediate demand during the health crisis. Lessons can be learnt for medium-term retraining efforts that will be needed to help workers transition to the post-COVID 19 economy, and to address ongoing skills shortages.
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Productivity gains from teleworking in the post COVID-19 era : How can public policies make it happen?
The ongoing health and economic crisis related to the COVID-19 pandemic and the required physical distancing measures force many firms to introduce telework (working from home) on a large scale. This may catalyse wider adoption of teleworking practices also after the crisis, with a wide range of impacts and uncertain net effects on productivity and other indicators. Public policies and co-operation among social partners are crucial to ensure that new, efficient and welfare-improving working methods emerging during the crisis are maintained and developed once physical distancing is over. To maximise the gains for productivity and welfare inherent in the use of more widespread telework, governments should promote investments in the physical and managerial capacity of firms and workers to telework and address potential concerns for worker well-being and longer-term innovation related in particular to the excessive downscaling of workspaces.
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The Digital Response to the Outbreak of COVID-19
In every major disaster response, there’s a mobilization of hopeful, well-intentioned actors who try to leverage their professional skills as part of the effort — and among them, there is arguably no industry whose work is more potentially invasive or dangerous during disaster than technology. Undeniably, we need to use technology as part of disaster response, but the regulatory immaturity of the industry has made technology companies risky allies, even in the best of circumstances. And these are not the best of circumstances: more than 200 governments are facing active COVID-19 cases and are using every power, resource and argument at their disposal to advance their interests — only some of which are directly related to COVID-19.
The Digital Response to the Outbreak of COVID-19
By Sean McDonald (CIGI)
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Networks and Technologies to Assist the Vulnerable During the Pandemic
Developed countries can use advanced social security systems to protect households from the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, but developing countries face a bigger challenge. They typically have a large informal sector and limited social security coverage, which hinder the delivery of assistance at short notice. Yet, developing Asia is better equipped to cushion the economic impact of the current crisis compared to the global financial crisis of 2008. Over the past decade, governments in Asia have expanded social protection, although the established social security systems for the poor remain limited. Networks and technologies are in place to identify the vulnerable and deliver assistance to them. These include citizen registration, cash transfers to bank accounts, e-benefit cards, microcredit, and others. Governments can use these mechanisms to identify and deliver assistance to the economically vulnerable during this crisis. We highlight several mechanisms.
Networks and Technologies to Assist the Vulnerable During the Pandemic
By Matthias Helble and Paul Vandenberg (ADBI)
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Cybersecurity and Privacy in the COVID-19 era
COVID-19 and remote working have resulted in a surge in demand for digital intermediaries, such as Zoom. Most of these are U.S.-based, with some having servers in China, which has aggravated privacy concerns. IT companies have responded quickly by fortifying themselves internally through a range of measures, but it is now time for India’s highly accomplished tech industry to devise secure, scalable platforms with India-based servers.
Cybersecurity and Privacy in the COVID-19 era
By Ambika Khanna and Sagnik Chakraborty (Gateway House)