This event explored the prospects of providing innovative, actionable information and advice to policymakers and other stakeholders, based on the results of contemporary research on complex dynamic systems.

This online resource will guide you in implementing the OECD Principles on Effective Public Investment Across Levels of Government. In addition to better familiarising yourself with the 12 Principles, the Toolkit lets you compare indicators and best practices in use in numerous countries, regions and municipalities.

This tooklit is a collection of good practices to help co-operation and exchange of ideas across countries on risk governance policies.

Internet access and use is growing in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), but the region needs to move faster in adding broadband infrastructure, expanding access and services and equipping people with the right skills for firms and households to fully benefit, according to a new OECD report.

Online toolkit designed to help implement the OECD Recommendation on Digital Government Strategies. By comparing good practices across OECD countries, this site can guide decision-makers in using digital technologies to encourage innovation, transparency, and efficiency in the public sector.

Online resource to help implement the OECD Recommendation on Public Procurement. This website provides policy tools, country examples and indicators to measure public procurement systems.

Toolkit providing a gateway to the various global budget and fiscal transparency institutions, official instruments, standards, and guidance materials.

Paris, 12 March 2018 - The fourth annual OECD Investment Treaty Conference addressed treaty shopping -- a controversial investment treaty issue of policy interest for many governments and stakeholders -- and explored tools to help interested governments improve their investment treaty policies.

Imports of Intra EU - Tools & Cutlery of Base Met in the United Kingdom increased to 56.24 GBP Million in February from 54 GBP Million in January of 2020. Imports of Intra EU - Tools & Cutlery of Base Met in the United Kingdom averaged 44.59 GBP Million from 1996 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 98.61 GBP Million in August of 2017 and a record low of 20.28 GBP Million in December of 1996. This page includes a chart with historical data for the United Kingdom Imports of Intra EU - Tools & Cutlery of Base Met.

Exports of Handicraft Machine Tools in Switzerland increased to 15.48 CHF Million in March from 14.24 CHF Million in February of 2020. Exports of Handicraft Machine Tools in Switzerland averaged 61.60 CHF Million from 1988 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 117.51 CHF Million in September of 1999 and a record low of 13.58 CHF Million in August of 2016. This page includes a chart with historical data for Switzerland Exports of Handicraft Machine Tools.

Imports of Handicraft Machine Tools in Switzerland increased to 107.56 CHF Million in March from 98.37 CHF Million in February of 2020. Imports of Handicraft Machine Tools in Switzerland averaged 108.37 CHF Million from 2014 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 127.04 CHF Million in October of 2018 and a record low of 86.10 CHF Million in December of 2015. This page includes a chart with historical data for Switzerland Imports of Handicraft Machine Tools.

Imports of Machine Tools in China increased to 565900 USD THO in April from 565100 USD THO in March of 2020. Imports of Machine Tools in China averaged 549529.55 USD THO from 1996 until 2020, reaching an all time high of 1455927 USD THO in September of 2012 and a record low of 74730 USD THO in March of 1998. This page includes a chart with historical data for China Imports of Machine Tools.

Facebook is expanding its Community Help hub to better serve local communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The hub has already seen significant usage by those requesting food, supplies and information about local resources, as well as use by volunteers and groups willing to lend a hand. Now, Facebook is adding more features to the hub […]

At a time when more transactions than ever are happening online, payments behemoth Stripe is announcing three new features to continue expanding its reach. The company today announced that it will now offer card issuing services directly to businesses to let them in turn make credit cards for customers tailored to specific purposes. Alongside that, it’s going […]

Facebook is expanding its Community Help hub to better serve local communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The hub has already seen significant usage by those requesting food, supplies and information about local resources, as well as use by volunteers and groups willing to lend a hand. Now, Facebook is adding more features to the hub […]

Like many other websites at the moment, the career-oriented networking platform LinkedIn has seen a big boost in traffic as a result of people being asked to work from home and stay indoors overall to slow the spread of the coronavirus, with a bump of 55% more conversational activity between existing connections in recent weeks. […]

Kim-Mai Cutler Contributor Kim-Mai Cutler is an operating partner for Initialized Capital, an early-stage venture firm and was previously a journalist covering technology, finance and policy issues at TechCrunch -- best-known for her long-form work on the Bay Area. More posts by this contributor The outlook for Bay Area startup space in 2017 OpenVote launches […]

Facebook is expanding its Community Help hub to better serve local communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The hub has already seen significant usage by those requesting food, supplies and information about local resources, as well as use by volunteers and groups willing to lend a hand. Now, Facebook is adding more features to the hub […]

A new data set from Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) details how startups are reacting to the post-unicorn era as COVID-19-related disruptions upset the global economy and remake the risk tolerance of private investors. What SVB’s new report shows is unsurprising: venture capital deal volumes are falling, startups are tapping existing debt capacities to add cash […]

Uber Eats is pulling out of a clutch of markets — shuttering its on-demand food offering in the Czech Republic, Egypt, Honduras, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Uruguay and Ukraine. It’s also transferring its Uber Eats business operations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to Careem, its wholly owned ride-hailing subsidiary that’s mostly focused on the Middle […]

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Oxfordshire County Council introduced the advice for transgender pupils last year, saying they should be able to use the toilets of their identified gender. The council has withdrawn the advice.

Celebrities are hailing a skincare tool which is kept in the freezer as a 'must-have' for its ability to replicate a salon-grade facial at home.

This is an excerpt of an article originally published by the Observer Research FoundationWork will be exactly what it is right now as the ‘future’ has already made its way to our present realities. It is then important to know how to address one of the most prevailing obstacles of our ‘new now’ — building trust within our cyber-relationships (mostly focusing on daily transactions and remote working).We know the world is heading towards an economic recession. We, therefore, need to try to make our new cyber reality as akin to real life as possible. This translates into having digital economies that want to be like the very jobs we used to have.Perhaps blockchain will have the answer. Humans produce data every single day, and there have long been debates about its ownership. Web 3.0 may now

Logging and charting tool for DC power supplies

PETE JENSON IN SPAIN: Wednesday night will go down as one of the greatest nights in Atletico's history and when it's recalled among the club's supporters not too many will remember the critics.

NRL star Jai Arrow has swapped the football for tools as he helps out his mate's parents and their building company while he waits for the NRL season to begin. 

Sunshine Coast cabinet maker Zac Whiting, 18, has been locked up since allegedly assaulting guard Adni Junus Liu outside a Burger King in Kuta on Friday morning.

Oxfordshire County Council introduced the advice for transgender pupils last year, saying they should be able to use the toilets of their identified gender. The council has withdrawn the advice.

Saud al-Qahtani, the former head of cybersecurity in Saudi Arabia, is thought to have spent years acquiring hacking tools for the state, including a $55m purchase from NSO Group in 2017.

Alison Harris, 51, from the UK, trained to be a private investigator when she was in her forties, having previously worked as a support worker for elderly people with dementia.

Facebook has created a new photo transfer that will let users copy all their photos and videos on Facebook to Google Photos. It is only available in Ireland but is launching worldwide in 2020.

The customer had reportedly returned to his local Coles supermarket in Adelaide three times in one day in the hopes of snagging the highly sought-after product.

Tom Kelsey, 33, from Oxford, Tom Church, 29, from London, and Deepak Tailor, 32, from Essex, have created a free supermarket price comparison tool following rising prices.

A tool launched by Uber lets riders report non-emergency incidents, like 'harsh braking' and 'inappropriate remarks'. It's the latest in a series of safety features introduced by the company.

Snapchat today announced it is working with charities in the US and UK to assist people with their mental health amid coronavirus pandemic.

A YouTube video posted by Jason Mayes, a Google Web Engineer, shows off an algorithm that eliminates humans from a webcam feed in real-time, leaving only the background in tact.

A Facebook data transfer tool that allows all users to move photos and videos from Facebook to Google Photos has launched in the UK. The GDPR-compliant tool launched in Ireland last year.

The developers of a speech recognition bot assigned to analyze the public statements of politicians hit a major stumbling block when it tried to make sense of Donald Trump.

Pune-based NGO Prayas Energy’s ESMI programme provides easily comprehensible data on the extent and quality of power supply in regions across the country, which can be used to demand accountability as well as enable social research. Manasi Mathkar reports.

The recent decisions of several state governments to ban sex education in all schools concern everyone, particularly women. In this age of the knowledge economy, we cannot believe that people's access to information on any subject, including matters relating to sex, can be controlled, says Kalpana Sharma.

As the spectre of communal violence raises its ugly head yet again in the build-up towards elections, India Together talks to Ramachandra Guha to explore the threats to the secular imagination in India and the hopes for religious pluralism in the democracy.

In 11 of the poorest districts in the country, a citizens' audit of development, modeled on an earlier study of education, helps residents themselves easily identify how their areas fare on key measures. Rukmini Banerjee and Shanti Jagannathan introduce PAHELI, the People's Audit of Health, Education and Livelihoods.

As we all know that processor and RAM are the most important hardware components that we can find in a computer. But we can't deny the fact that even hard drives are an important part. Be it an i5 or i7

Facebook has over 300 million users in India. The social media platform has announced that It will actively start notifying those users who have liked, commented on, or shared COVID-19 related misinformation. Facebook hopes the step will stop the spread of wrong

The study that appeared in the pre-print repository medRxiv, proposed that national differences in COVID-19 impact could be partially explained by the different national policies respect to BCG childhood vaccination.

As of April 24, 2020, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in India is 23,077 including 4,749 recovered cases and 718 deaths. Seeing a 19-days incubation period of the virus, medical experts have suggested 14 days quarantine for people who

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