The OECD’s ‘Going Digital’

European Straits #12

Dear all,

A few months ago, I was invited by Andy Wyckoff, the Director for Science, Technology and Innovation at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), to participate in their 'Going Digital' project. The role of the Expert Advisory Group is to provide strategic guidance, to bring ‘fresh thinking’ as to the new set of institutions that are needed for a more inclusive digital age, and to promote the project beyond the OECD.

The group had its first meeting last Wednesday at the OECD headquarters in Paris. I was honored to join leading experts such as Ann Mettler, who heads the European Commission’s in-house think tank, Diego Piacentini, who last year took a leave of absence from Amazon.com to take charge of the Italian government’s digital transformation, Malavika Jayaram, who is the executive director of the Digital Asia Hub in Hong Kong, and David Weil, who as Barack Obama’s Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the US Department of Labor was confron…