Observation and Benchmarking News 13th Meeting of the OECD Working Party on Indicators for the Information Society 13th Meeting of the OECD Working Party on Indicators for the Information Society
- 23/04/2009
The 13th Meeting of the OECD Working Party on Indicators for the Information Society (WPIIS) of the OECD’s Information, Computers and Communication Policy Committee (ICCP) was held on 23rd – 24th April 2009 in Paris.
The meeting agenda included information and proposals from Member States on ICT measures, the potential for synergies between private and official statistics, the OECD’s Innovation Strategy, the response to the economic and financial crisis for sustainable recovery, the outcomes of the PISA study on ICT and education, the key factors for household spending on ICT, analysis of the role of ICT in transmitting knowledge, analysis of innovation encouraged by ICT, a proposal to update the definition of eCommerce, measuring the relationship between ICT and the environment, ICT statistics and global trade, ICT indicators in the health sectors and gauging the social impact of ICT.
Portugal was represented by the Voting Member of the Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC)’s Board of Directors, Graça Simões, who coordinates OSIC – the Information Society and Knowledge Observatory at UMIC and who is also President of the Working Party on Monitoring Information Society Statistics set up in the scope of the Higher Statistics Board.