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Skills for a Digital World : 2016 Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy Background Report
This report provides new evidence on the effects of digital technologies on the demand for skills and discusses key policies for skills development adapted to the digital economy. Workers across an increasing range of occupations need generic and/or advanced ICT skills to use such technologies effectively. More fundamentally, the diffusion of digital technologies is changing how work is done, raising demand for complementary skills such as information processing, self-direction, problem solving and communication. This report discusses measures that can help to ensure that the diffusion of digital technologies is accompanied by the development of the skills needed for their effective use, an increase in the responsiveness of national skills development systems to changes in skills demand and of new learning opportunities created by digital technologies.

Country Reports

- Business Coaching for Ethnic Minorities, Denmark (Inclusive Business Creation: Good Practice Compendium), 2016
- Capacity building and public services in the Netherlands (Innovation, Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability in the Netherlands), 2015
- Women in the Labour Market, Croatia (Inclusive Business Creation: Good Practice Compendium), 2016
- Access to Work, United Kingdom (Inclusive Business Creation: Good Practice Compendium), 2016
- Assessment and recommendations (Open Government Data Review of Mexico: Data Reuse for Public Sector Impact and Innovation), 2016
Thematic Reports

- Containing educational costs (Open Educational Resources: A Catalyst for Innovation), 2015
- Effective coaching and mentoring for entrepreneurs from under-represented and disadvantaged groups (The Missing Entrepreneurs 2015: Policies for Self-employment and Entrepreneurship), 2015
- An overview of the digital economy (OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2015), 2015
- Cities as hubs for data-driven innovation (Data-Driven Innovation: Big Data for Growth and Well-Being), 2015
- Widening the distribution of high quality educational resources (Open Educational Resources: A Catalyst for Innovation), 2015
What Countries are Doing
Published by OECD in 2016