A roadmap toward a common framework for measuring the Digital Economy – Report for the G20 Digital Economy Task Force published by OECD (2020).
“This report builds upon previous G20 and other relevant work to develop A Roadmap toward a Common Framework on Measuring the Digital Economy”, including a proposed common agreed definition on the Digital Economy and a set of existing indicators for measuring the Jobs, Skills, and Growth in the Digital Economy. It complements previous work and proposes a clear step forward for Digital Economy measurement.
Chapter 1 provides over-arching context for the report. After providing an overview of key trends currently shaping the scale and development of the Digital Economy in G20 countries, it showcases a range of indicators, updated from the 2018 G20 Toolkit for Measuring the Digital Economy as well as complementing these with select additional indicators to give new insights and perspectives. This is one illustration of how A roadmap toward a common framework for measuring the Digital Economy builds on previous work by the DETF as well as initiatives by International Organisations.
Themes of Infrastructure, Empowering Society, and Innovation and Technology Adoption are explored through 17 key indicators. By reviewing data sources and measurement methods, as well as remaining gaps and challenges, chapter 1 lays the foundations for chapter 2, which builds upon these components to develop a G20 definition of the Digital Economy, and chapter 3, which goes a step further by setting out G20 indicators on Jobs, Skills and Growth in the Digital Economy. These themes are also measurement pillars within the G20 Common Framework for Measuring the Digital Economy set out in chapter 4; the indicators in chapter 1 give an initial indication of indicators that could be selected through future work…”