Information and communication technology

Five ways to win with digital platforms: Many new platforms will fail, but small businesses and traditional incumbents can succeed by taking five steps

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Accenture 2016 - Digital platform companies are transforming the way we do business by creating vast markets, compelling customer experiences and new ways to innovate. But how will small and traditional companies find success in a platform landscape dominated by digital born companies? This report identifies the critical platform success factors for businesses and policy makers.

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Employment
Information and communication technology
Technological transition
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
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Juanita Rodríguez (Ministerio de Trabajo) habla sobre Trabajo Autónomo Económicamente Dependiente - YouTube

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Juanita Rodríguez,Gerente de contenidos Digitales, habla del proyecto de ley de Trabajo Autónomo Económicamente Dependiente de autoría del Representante Rodrigo Lara, en la comisión VII del Senado el día 1 de Diciembre de 2016.

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colombia
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Employment
Information and communication technology
Technological transition
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Digital Platforms
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[Entrevista] Así estamos llevando a los colombianos a la economía digital

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El Espectador (19.09.2017) Lo cuenta Juanita Rodríguez Kattah, la gerente de Colombia 4.0, el evento digital más importante del año. Es la cumbre de industrias creativas digitales, el evento más grande que tiene el Mintic, que todos los años ha venido creciendo y que nos cuenta las últimas tendencias en contenidos digitales. ¿Qué es todo eso en realidad?

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colombia
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Information and communication technology
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Labour market
Societal Impact
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France: Alan launches mobile app for its health insurance service of the future

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TechCrunch (15.09.2017) French startup Alan is trying the impossible by reinventing health insurance and life insurance. The company just launched its mobile app on iOS and Android. You can now send a bill, say that you’re at the hospital and contact Alan directly from the app.

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france
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Health
Health insurance
Information and communication technology

Anti-Social Registries: how a database excludes many from social protection

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developmentpathways.co.uk (10.09.2017) A craze sweeping the social protection world for Social Registries is systematically depriving some of the world’s poorest not only of social protection but also of access to vital services. So argues our latest publication, ‘Anti-Social Registries: How have they become so popular?

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Information and communication technology
Inequalities

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Futuro del trabajo: las perspectivas hasta 2030

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Mercado (25.08.2017) ¿Cómo creen los trabajadores que evolucionará su espacio laboral en los próximos diez años? ¿Y cómo entienden que esto afectará sus perspectivas de empleo?

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Employment
Employment of young workers
Information and communication technology
Technological transition
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Labour market

Artificial Intelligence Is More Artificial Than Intelligent | WIRED

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DEEPMIND HAS SURPASSED the human mind on the Go board. Watson has crushed America's trivia gods on Jeopardy. But ask DeepMind to play Monopoly or Watson to play Family Feud, and they won't even know where to start.

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Information and communication technology
Technological transition
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Labour market
Large-scale automation
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Au-delà des fantasmes, quels sont les problèmes concrets que pose l’intelligence artificielle ?

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lemonde.fr (03.08.2017) Les récents progrès de ces technologies posent, dès à présent, des questions moins spectaculaires, mais bien plus concrètes.

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Information and communication technology
Technological transition
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Labour market
Large-scale automation
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For robots to work with people, they must understand people

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economist.com (17.07.2017) Direct interaction between robots and humans at work is changing the face—or rather the arms—of manufacturing. Such interaction also means that roboticists need to design effective team mates as well as efficient workers. Cobots operate in a realm where human thoughts, human modes of communication and human safety are paramount. Rethink Robotics, a firm in Boston, had this in mind when it developed Sawyer, a one-armed cobot, and his two-armed colleague, Baxter (both pictured above). These robots are not the isolated moving arms of an assembly-line ’bot.

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Occupational accidents and diseases
Information and communication technology
Technological transition
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Labour market
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Reverence for Robots: Japanese Workers Treasure Automation

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AP (16.08.2017) The debate over machines snatching jobs from people is muted in Japan, where birth rates have been sinking for decades, raising fears of a labor shortage.

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Information and communication technology
Technological transition
Digital Economy Topical Cluster
Large-scale automation
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