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• OECD slams Britain's corporate bribery record: report

  - 2008-08-17

  LONDON AFP — OECD member-states have written to Britain criticising London's failure to deal with corporate bribery, the Financial Times said Sunday. According to the business daily's website, the letter was sent in June, around a month before the House of Lords, Britain's highest court, overturned a ruling that...

  Tags: Britain, INTERNET, London, OECD

• OECD ministers agree to make Internet safer, more widely used

  - 2008-06-18

  SEOUL AFP — Ministers and officials from leading industrial nations agreed Wednesday to make the Internet safer and more accessible, to strengthen its role as a driving force in the global economy. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD ministerial meeting adopted a "Seoul declaration" after a two-day...

  Tags: declaration, INTERNET, OECD, Seoul

• Soaring oil prices could boost Internet: Google executive

  - 2008-06-18

  SEOUL AFP — Soaring oil prices are hitting the world economy but could prove a boon for the Internet, the vice president of Google said Wednesday. "Although I'm not happy with increased oil prices, the Internet industry may actually benefit from that as people turn to it as an...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, Google Inc., INTERNET, OECD

• SKorea's Lee highlights Internet benefits, dangers

  - 2008-06-17

  SEOUL AFP — South Korea's embattled President Lee Myung-Bak Tuesday highlighted the benefits and dangers of the Web as he addressed an international meeting on the future of the Internet economy. Lee, grappling with IT-inspired mass protests over his decision to resume US beef imports, bemoaned the "spread of...

  Tags: benefit, INTERNET, OECD

• Regional Internet Registries Appeal for IPv6 Investment at OECD Conference on 'The Future of the Internet Economy'

  - 2008-06-17

  The cost of migrating the Internet infrastructure to IPv6 will be significant, but the cost of not making this investment will end up being far higher SEOUL, South Korea -- The Number Resource Organization NRO, which is made up of the world's five Regional Internet Registries RIRs, AfriNIC, APNIC,...

  Tags: INTERNET, Internet-infrastructure, investment, IP, IPv6, NETWORKING, OECD, registry, TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• News from OECD Ministerial Meeting: The Internet Technical Community Issues Memorandum on the Future of the Internet in a Global Economy

  - 2008-06-16

  * Principles for development of the future Internet economy announced to ministers from 30 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD member states * Internet technical community urges OECD to fuel creativity, build confidence and create maximum benefit from convergence to ensure a user-centric Internet. SEOUL, South Korea...

  Tags: INTERNET, OECD

• Zombies and botnets: OECD warns of hidden armies in cyber wars

  - 2008-05-31

  PARIS AFP — The simple act of using a computer for email or the Internet can mobilise armies of hidden agents and criminals out to subvert the system and business, the OECD says in a study on cyber crime. The report, entitled "Malicious software malware: a security threat to...

  Tags: computer, INTERNET, malware, OECD, PRODUCTIVITY, SECURITY

• Media Advisory/OECD-The Participative Web: Strategies and Policies for the Future.

  - 2007-09-28

  OTTAWA, ONTARIO, Sep 28, 2007 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- On October 3, 2007, world leaders in the evolution of the Internet and World Wide Web will meet with public policy experts in Ottawa, to discuss key opportunities and challenges posed by the new, "Participative Web". Participants...

  Tags: conference, INTERNET, OECD, Ottawa

• Useful websites

  - 2006-07-01

  Corporate Social Responsibility Networks AccountAblity www.accountability.org.au Best Practices Database www.bestpractices.org Business for Social Responsibility www.bsr.org/ Caux Roundtable www.cauxroundtable.org/ Centre for Tomorrows Company www.tomorrowscompany. com/index.html Council for Economic Priorities CEP <www.-2.realaudio. com/CEP/ CSR--Forum www.csrforum.com/ Earth Charter www.earthcharter.org/ Executive Excess www.executiveexcess.com Global...

  Tags: INTERNET, Leadership, OECD, WWW

• Stuck in the middle lane and in need of speed.

  - 2006-04-12

  Byline: David Crowe Apr 12, 2006 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- A global study of broadband internet use has come up with interesting findings. The OECD figures were based on broadband internet use at the end of December 2005....

  Tags: Australia, broadband, INTERNET, NETWORKING, OECD, TELECOMMUNICATIONS