Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation
OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2024 (Volume 1)
Embracing the Technology Frontier
The OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2024, Volume 1: Embracing the Technology Frontier
provides new insights on key technologies that underpin the digital technology ecosystem
and their impacts. Using big data and machine-learning techniques, Volume 1 provides
new estimates of the growth rate of the ecosystem’s core – the information and communications
technology (ICT) sector. It then looks toward the technology frontier with perspectives
on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and how it can be shaped into a positive
force. Volume 1 also analyses how people, firms and governments are adopting digital
technologies, offering insights into the scale and scope of digital divides and how
to boost equal opportunity and inclusion. To that end, it looks at the critical need
for next generation wireless networks to provide unlimited connectivity everywhere.
Moving beyond the hype of immersive technologies, Volume 1 examines the proven ability
of virtual reality (VR) to scale, while identifying its opportunities and risks. Finally,
it shines a spotlight on mental health in digital environments, including those most
at risk.
Published on May 14, 2024Also available in: French