TF4 - Digital Transformation DIGITAL INCLUSION STRATEGIES FOR THE G20 - LESSONS IN PUBLIC-PRIVATE COOPERATION FROM INDIA AND AFRICA ABSTRACT Public digital infrastructure, including hard and soft variants, encourages competition, innovation and inclusion. Through the India Stack and Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP), the Indian [...]

TF4 - Digital Transformation SIFTING TRUTH FROM FICTION: ENHANCED PROTECTION FROM FAKE NEWS ABSTRACT This policy brief examines approaches to reducing the impact of “fake news” on children, exploring elementary safeguarding measures and an educational focus to distinguish authentic from manipulative material. We focus on a [...]

TF4 - Digital Transformation OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION ON DIGITAL HEALTH. LESSONS FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION ABSTRACT The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the forefront the role of sharing quality data in a timely manner to inform crisis management, public health and research. Moreover, the [...]

TF4 - Digital Transformation LEVELLING THE DATA PLAYING FIELD - THE G20 EX ANTE REGULATORY APPROACH TO PLATFORMS WITH STRATEGIC MARKET STATUS ABSTRACT This paper urges the G20 to implement a framework for defining online platforms that qualify as being of the utmost importance for [...]

TF4 - Digital Transformation LEGAL REGULATION OF THE PLATFORM ECONOMY ABSTRACT This Policy Brief provides proposals as to how different jurisdictions may im-plement the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, and the ILO Report on Decent Work in the context of platform [...]

TF4 - Digital Transformation A GLOBAL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK FOR DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES ABSTRACT In the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, digital platforms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Zoom have firmly entrenched themselves into the daily lives of many and provided core societal functions that [...]

TF4 - Digital Transformation PROMOTING GLOBAL FINANCIAL RESILIENCE AGAINST CYBER THREATS THROUGH AN OPERATIONAL COLLABORATION MODEL ABSTRACT This policy brief explores the challenge of how to promote the cyber resilience of the global financial system through operational collaboration. It focuses on promoting the resilience both [...]

TF4 - Digital Transformation HOMEBASED PLATFORM WORK AND WOMEN’S LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION IN A POST-COVID WORLD ABSTRACT Over the last two decades, the world has seen a proliferation of digital platforms and the emergence of an ecosystem of digital work. Now, with the onset of [...]

TF4 - Digital Transformation DIGITAL LEARNING FOR EVERY CHILD: CLOSING THE GAPS FOR AN INCLUSIVE AND PROSPEROUS FUTURE ABSTRACT Pre-Covid-19, half of the world’s children were already unable to read a simple text by the age of 10. School closures have deepened pre-existing learning disparities, [...]