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Development Co-operation Principles for Relevant and Effective Support to Media and the Information Environment
Key Guidance

Paris: OECD (2024), 15 pp.

"The below principles seek to reinvigorate international support to media and the information environment. They aspire to encourage current development co-operation providers to increase levels of financial and other forms of assistance and to improve the relevance and effectiveness of their existin ... g support to preserve, protect, and promote public interest media and information integrity. Official development assistance (ODA) can be essential to address the major challenges facing the global information environment. The principles presented here may guide development co-operation providers’ endeavours to respond to the challenges laid out in the preamble. The principles are supported by a non-exhaustive, indicative list of practical, concrete ways to operationalise each principle. The first principle on ‘do no harm to public interest media’, is intended as a minimum standard which all development co-operation providers are expected to respect. The other principles are more ambitious, seeking to function as a guide and an inspiration to development co-operation providers to increase the relevance and effectiveness of their support. 1. Ensure that assistance does no harm to public interest media [...] 2. Increase financial and other forms of support to public interest media and the information environment, in order to strengthen democratic resilience [...] 3. Take a whole of system perspective on supporting the media and information environment to make support more relevant, effective and sustainable. Consider the media and information environment as a development sector in itself, a critical part of efforts to promote and protect democracy, human rights, gender equality and development as well as a sector which can support implementation of other development goals [...] 4. Strengthen local leadership and ownership, empowering media partners as well as other actors in the information environment such as civil society organisations and online content creators to meaningfully participate in policies and programmes [...] 5. Improve co-ordination of support to the media and information environment, both among donor agencies and between development and diplomatic efforts to support media freedom, especially in contexts of crisis [...] 6. Invest in knowledge, research, and learning [...]" (Page 8-11) more

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The impact of digital technologies on well-being: Main insights from the literature

Jihye Lee, Ziga Zarnic

OECD (2024), 60 pp.

"Digital technologies are reshaping our lives, with significant impacts on personal and societal well-being. As these technologies are increasingly integrated into everyday life, it is crucial to raise awareness on their positive and negative impacts which are reviewed in this paper. While innovatio ... more

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Mapping and analysis of ODA to media and the information environment
Top Insights

Laure-Hélène Piron

Paris: OECD; OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) (2024), 101 pp.

"Laure-Hélène Piron (The Policy Practice Director) undertook an analysis of official development assistance to media and the information environment for the Governance Network of the OECD Development Assistance Committee which was published in June 2024. The report shows that the rhetoric of gover ... more

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Communicating Science Responsibly

Paris: OECD (2023), 7 pp.

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Principes pour un soutien pertinent et efficace aux médias et à l'espace de l'information

Paris: OECD (2023), 14 pp.

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The Adoption of Innovation in International Development Organisations: Lessons for Development Co-operation

Benjamin Kumpf, Parnika Jhunjhunwala

Paris: OECD (2023), 74 pp.

"This Working Paper addresses this challenge of adopting innovations. How can development organisations institutionalise a new way of working, bringing what was once novel to the core of how business is done? Analysing successful adoption efforts across five DAC agencies, the paper lays out a propos ... more

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Investigative Journalism and Fiscal Transparency: Catalysts for Addressing Corruption in Oil-producing Developing Countries

Claire Naval et al.

Paris: OECD (2023), 47 pp.

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Handbook on Measuring Digital Trade

Patrick Quill, Antonella Liberatore, David Brackfield, Julia Schmidt, Daniel Ker, Barbara D’Andrea Adrian, Joscelyn Magdeleine, Ying Yan

Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund (IMF); OECD; United Nations; World Trade Organization (WTO), 2nd ed. (2023), 173 pp.

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Principles on Relevant and Effective Support to Media and the Information Environment

OECD (2023), 13 pp.

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Policy responses to false and misleading digital content: A snapshot of children’s media literacy

Jordan Hill

Paris: OECD (2022), 81 pp.

"This paper has four parts. First, it outlines current research and definitions relating to false and misleading digital content and looks at children's behaviour in the digital environment. Second, the concepts of media literacy, digital literacy and other relevant competencies are discussed. Third ... more

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Good Practice Principles for Public Communication Responses to Mis- and Disinformation
Key Guidance

Craig Matasick, Carlotta Alfonsi et al.

Paris: OECD (2022), 43 pp.

"1. Institutionalisation: Governments should consolidate interventions into coherent approaches guided by official communication and data policies, standards and guidelines [...] 2. Public interest driven: Public communication should strive to be independent from politicization in implementing inter ... more

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OECD Policy Framework on Digital Security: Cybersecurity for Prosperity
Key Guidance

Paris: OECD (2022), 38 pp.

"The OECD Policy Framework on Digital Security helps policy makers understand the economic and social dimension of cybersecurity, raises their awareness about the OECD approach to digital security policy, and encourages them to make use of OECD digital security recommendations to develop better poli ... more

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Building Trust and Reinforcing Democracy: Preparing the Ground for Government Action

Paris: OECD (2022), 229 pp.

"Democracies are at a critical juncture, under growing internal and external pressures. This publication sheds light on the important public governance challenges countries face today in preserving and strengthening their democracies, including fighting mis- and disinformation; improving government ... more

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Disentangling untruths online: Creators, spreaders and how to stop them

Molly Lesher, Hanna Pawelec, Arpitha Desai

Paris: OECD (2022), 38 pp.

"While false rumours, inaccurate reporting, and conspiracy theories have existed for as long as there were people to create and spread them, the Internet has reshaped and amplified the ability to produce and perpetuate false and misleading content. Stopping the creators and spreaders of untruths onl ... more

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Disinformation and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine: Threats and governance responses

Paris: OECD (2022), 33 pp.

"The spread of disinformation around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reflects wider challenges related to the shift in how information is produced and distributed. Platform and algorithm designs can amplify the spread of disinformation by facilitating the creation of echo chambers and confirmation bi ... more

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Misinformation and disinformation: An international effort using behavioural science to tackle the spread of misinformation

Chiara Varazzani, Michaela Sullivan-Paul, Lauryn Conway, Andrea Colasanti, Nicholas Diamond

Paris: OECD; OPSI (2022), 31 pp.

"The OECD convened a first-of-its kind international partnership on behavioural science and misinformation between the Canadian and the French governments to develop and disseminate behaviourally-informed and evidence-based solutions that can guide government response to misinformation. The study te ... more

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OECD Report on Public Communication: The Global Context and the Way Forward

Paris: OECD (2021), 240 pp.

"The first OECD Report on Public Communication: The Global Context and the Way Forward examines the public communication structures, mandates and practices of centres of governments and ministries of health from 46 countries, based on the 2020 Understanding Public Communication surveys. It analyses ... more

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21st-Century Readers: Developing Literacy Skills in a Digital World

PISA

Paris: OECD (2021), 213 pp.

"Digital technologies have enabled the spread of all kinds of information, displacing traditional formats of usually more carefully curated information such as encyclopaedias and newspapers. The massive information flow of the digital era demands that readers be able to distinguish between fact and ... more

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How Best to Communicate on Migration and Integration in the Context of COVID-19?

OECD (2020), 9 pp.

"In the context of the COVID 19 pandemic, effective communication on migration and integration has helped governments achieve crucial policy objectives: First, in order to limit the spread of the virus, governments need to provide all parts of the population, including migrants, with timely and accu ... more

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OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2020

Paris: OECD (2020), 315 pp.

Development Co-operation Principles for Relevant and Effective Support to Media and the Information Environment Key Guidance

Mapping and analysis of ODA to media and the information environment Top Insights

Good Practice Principles for Public Communication Responses to Mis- and Disinformation Key Guidance

OECD Policy Framework on Digital Security: Cybersecurity for Prosperity Key Guidance

Development Co-operation Principles for Relevant and Effective Support to Media and the Information Environment
Key Guidance

Mapping and analysis of ODA to media and the information environment
Top Insights

Good Practice Principles for Public Communication Responses to Mis- and Disinformation
Key Guidance

OECD Policy Framework on Digital Security: Cybersecurity for Prosperity
Key Guidance