Digitalization and greater access to Internet-connected technologies create a variety of new opportunities for development and humanitarian agencies to support displaced populations and refugees (Martin-Shields 2017). There are examples of governments from municipal to national levels in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and […]
Sustainable Development Goal Four (SDG 4) and human rights covenants speak to the need to “ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all.” The SDGs frame education as a route to poverty eradication, and international covenants speak […]
We urge the G20 to develop a comprehensive agenda with a systemic vision on digital money and finance that could guide a resilient financial system through a prudent transition process, keep pace with technology, and deliver the long-term benefits promised by innovation. […]
Why job quality, and our ability to measure it, is important Job quality matters because the better alignment of human skills leads to higher levels of worker productivity. The economist David Autor’s “O ring principle” argues that, as machines take on more […]
Any meaningful improvement to the safety and protection of children online, must come from the highest authority. Therefore, we believe that the G20 has a crucial role to play in leading the efforts to create a safer cyberspace for children. The following […]
Electronic media has many positive effects on children, contributing to their education, creativity, entertainment, self–fulfilment, health, safety, and civic and political participation (Buckingham 2000; Third and Lemm 2019; Third et al. 2017). However, children are exposed to harmful electronic games and sexual […]
Recent G20 communiques and the work of last year’s T20 Task Force on The Future of Work and Education for the Digital Age have emphasized the need for digital access and skills to bridge the digital skills gap between education and the […]
Policy Action 1: The Group of 20 (G20) should establish a working group (including members from the Think 20, Labour 20, and Business 20) to examine the socio-economic potential of immersive learning technologies and identify its impact at the employee, company, industry, […]
Providing appropriate digital financial services (DFS) to crisis-affected populations is a global policy priority. Global discussions on financial inclusion of vulnerable populations have only recently begun to address the needs of FDPs as an explicit target group (UNHCR and Social Performance Task […]
Background The data collection industry is not new. Data brokers like Acxiom and ChoicePoint have been aggregating consumer addresses, phone numbers, buying habits, and more from offline sources and selling them to advertisers and political parties for decades. However, the Internet has […]
Background G20 leaders have already endorsed the “High-Level Principles on National Strategies for Financial Education” in 2012 (OECD/INFE 2012). However, these principles have been limited to traditional financial education, which focuses on the understanding of basic principles of finance, such as compound […]
The various UN approaches to establishing behavioral norms in cyberspace are hampered by the renewed paralysis in the Security Council. Limiting the debate to states excludes key non-state actors and subordinates broader civil society interests to geopolitical considerations. A new approach that […]
Balancing the need for competition, innovation, and cooperation while mitigating the risks and undesirable consequences attributed to AI poses a daunting challenge for governments. This challenge arises from the dual-use, uncertain, and all-embracing character of AI, as well as from an already […]
A Group of Twenty (G20) Investment Facility and Fund to facilitate public–private collaboration on investment reforms that increase both the quantity and quality of investment flows, while providing technical assistance to developing economies to help overcome capacity constraints. A Sustainable Investment Framework […]
1. Clarify the definition of and update global rules for digital trade Challenge: We have entered the digital age, but do not have a single recognized and accepted definition or means of measurement of digital trade yet. Solution: G20 members need to […]
There Will Be No Going Back The year 2020 marks a break point in global economic history, with the punctuation mark being the low probability but high impact Black Swan event of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether the recovery from the deepest downturn […]
The Governance Challenge The digital transformation opens up seemingly unbounded scope for market failure, government failure and social dysfunction. Market failure is predicted because the data-driven economy powers the emergence of superstar firms through the combination of economies of scale and scope, […]
Machine Knowledge Capital AI introduces a new factor of production into the economy — machine knowledge capital, which in the first instance will be narrowly intelligent but hyper-competent AI programs. This enables a significant expansion of income-generating knowledge-based assets. The competition to […]
The Spectrum of Policy Responses Supporting and Managing Innovation The first three points above create near ideal conditions for which industrial policy — that is, the strategic use of government intervention in the economy — exists. Governments either actively “pick winners” — […]
5G Interoperability and Cybersecurity Standards It should be noted, however, that these estimates are all contingent on two factors related to standardization that are critical for success. The first factor is the ability to achieve interoperability between devices and networks. Although an […]
Creating New Data Value Chains If Canada is serious about becoming a digital economy, it needs to develop a new architecture in order to support systematic data collection and grading, data access and sharing, and data analytics among a wide variety of […]
DSTF This policy brief proposes an alternative to the status quo, the creation of a new institution named the DSTF. It would be similar in structure to the Internet Engineering Task Force. The DSTF would be entrusted with a dual mandate: enabling […]
Policy Recommendations Like Brazil’s internet governance debate, the emerging discussion around data regulation involves an all-encompassing issue, has low levels of public understanding and implicates many powerful interests. Based on these similarities, this policy brief makes the following recommendations and offers some […]
Women’s equality and empowerment is one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, which give them a fundamental right to have control over their lives to put forth impact and influence on society. Diverse and inclusive human capital is considered as a key […]
1. Promote the establishment of binding legislation on a national level while ensuring international alignment As a leading forum on issues of international economic cooperation, with members accounting for nearly 80% of international trade globally (10), the G20 is ideally positioned to […]
PILLAR 1: Promoting Data Interoperability on a Global Level In the absence of a universally accepted definition of interoperability as it pertains to data governance, Kerber and Schweizer (2017) broadly characterizes it as “the ability of a system, product or service to […]
When G20 leaders meet in Osaka, they will discuss the digital economy as one of their priorities. Japan as summit host will focus on securing a free, inclusive and sustainable future society, through development centred on digital innovation. G20 leaders will discuss […]
Improve Traditional Lending using New Technology and Big Data ➢ Emerging financial technology and innovations in traditional business models can take advantage of the rapidly digitizing economy to expand SMEs’ access to credit. 1. Process automation The traditional lending process may benefit from […]
This policy brief suggests that a systematic formation of policies for the flow of data and data-related businesses can be developed based on an analogy with trade in goods. On this basis, the brief classifies a series of data-related policies based on […]
The recommendations outlined below focus, first, on improving policymakers’ access to data on platform economy work and, second, on using that information to design integrated systems of taxation and social protection and develop appropriate legal definitions of platform services and workers. We […]
In the final declaration of the 2018 G20 summit -“Building consensus for fair and sustainable development”- world leaders assessed that they “remain committed to building an inclusive, fair and sustainable Future of Work by promoting decent work (…) including work delivered through […]
Technological change and the future of work in the North Artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies are changing the way we produce, consume, trade and work. This profound transformation resembles those brought by the steam engine in the late eighteenth century, […]
The G20 has been among those actively engaged in bridging the divide between skills, training and employability. The 2010 G20 Training Strategy highlighted the early vision and the anticipated needs and challenges that the labor market was likely to face (ILO, 2010). […]
Promoting Best Practices on TVET across G20 Countries by Understanding the Actual Situation of Self-Employed Individuals Working via Platforms This proposal is for two interconnected policy actions. • Policy Action 1: The first is that the G20 establish a T20-B20-L20 collaboration to […]
1. Adopt a holistic approach towards lifelong learning that encompasses all stages of life, from preschool to post-retirement, and all forms of learning, including formal, nonformal, and informal education The skill base of the population (including education, digital skills, and ability to […]
G20 countries need to cooperate to develop consistent definitions of digital financial literacy, to design and implement tools to assess it, and develop strategies and programs to promote digital financial education as well as special programs for vulnerable groups, including the elderly, […]
Industrialization and deeper integration in GVCs contribute towards the prosperity of a region and helps accumulate physical and human capital. It integrates the informal and formal economy and generates demand for agriculture, mining, and other raw materials, as well as for energy […]
G20 as expert platform to examine quality in digital education and propose the formats • G20 should become a think tank to moderate the analytic work integrating different disciplines in order to elaborate the new principles of quality of education in digital environment […]
We ask G20 and African leaders to take urgent and decisive action to ensure that taxation of the digitalized economy works for Africa, through actions at the national, sub-regional, pan-African and global levels. A. G20 countries should support a global and inclusive […]
We ask African and G20 leaders to take urgent and decisive action to harness digital technologies to support Africa’s industrialization. A. African countries should adopt active industrial policies and urgently use a range of industrial policy tools to support African manufacturers’ access to […]
Recent G20 communiques have emphasized the need for a global educational framework to improve basic digital skills’ awareness and capabilities (e.g., Chetty et al., 2017, 2018; Cobo, Zucchetti, & Rivas, 2018). These reports have also included recommendations to improve general infrastructure related […]
A disruptive narrative about the acceleration of the impact of technology on the future of work has caught the attention of the global community of policy makers. However, the conversation is often gender-blind. Analysis of the topic is too often oblivious to […]
This task force makes three proposals, on the basis of the challenges the world is facing and the opportunities that countries have to capitalise on digitalisation of their economies. G20 leaders can play a necessary, influential role in advancing strategic and holistic […]
A T20 platform for Accelerating the Jobs of the Future Given the challenges described, the proposal is for G20 countries to endorse and facilitate the creation of a T20 platform for Accelerating the Jobs of the Future. Open to all think tanks, […]
With modest and strategic investments and partnerships, the G20 can provide a meaningful boost to the quality of tertiary and TVET institutions across Africa. As previously mentioned, it is important to note that the proposed interventions are mutually beneficial for G20 countries […]
The German G20 presidency set the themes for 2017 as Resilience, Sustainability and Responsibility‘. We propose that this may be achieved in the area of skills and education through the social ecosystem model. ‘A social ecosystem can be defined as an evolving […]
Proposal: A global framework for enabling data exchange, cross-referencing, tracing and analysing Beneficial Owner data on cross-border financial transactions must be established. Two developments make this proposal feasible now. One, other G20 efforts such as those initiated by FSB, FATF, OECD and […]
The 4th Industrial Revolution, the World of Work, and Structural Transformation in Africa According to the WEF Board (2016), the technology wave has finally crested. In particular, the WEF Board observed that “technology [has] shifted from a supporting role to the spotlight”. […]
Case Studies Many barriers to women’s digital inclusion are traditional gender restrictions, which manifest themselves in laws or socio-cultural norms, poverty, lower educational opportunities for girls and restricted access to labour markets, as well as persistent gender stereotypes. Accordingly, policies aimed at […]
The proposal is that the T20 should seek to develop a trans-national resource that would enable policymakers rapidly to access information about new approaches to funding and financing post-compulsory education and to identify which examples might be particularly relevant to their own […]