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How is the digital transformation affecting people’s lives? How’s Life in the Digital Age? shows that impacts can be positive as digital technologies expand the boundaries of information availability and enhance human productivity, but can also imply risks for people’s well- being, ranging from cyber-bullying to the emergence of disinformation or cyber-hacking. It also highlights current data limitations and makes recommendations to improve the measurement of the impacts of the digital transformation in various areas of well-being in the future. Key findings ► The digital transformation creates both opportunities and risks for well- being, but they do not always go together. ► A digital divide remains, as some people are more capable than others of leveraging the digital transformation for a better life. ► Digital technologies improve lives by making human activities more efficient. ► Beyond pure digital skills, emotional and social skills are necessary to fully benefit from digital technologies. Extreme use of digital tools may create mental health risks. How’s Life in the Digital Age? OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS OF THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR PEOPLE’S WELL-BEING 0 10 20 30 40 50 KOR JPN LTU MEX SVN GRC CHE FIN ISL NOR POL ISR ITA OECD LVA IRL AUT SVK CZE FRA EST PRT NZL LUX AUS BEL HUN DNK NLD ESP SWE GBR CHL Source: Based on OECD (2015), Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) (database), www.oecd.org/pisa/data. Low parental education High parental education Total Share of 15-year olds reporting to use the Internet for more than 6 hours a day on the weekend, by parental education Extreme Internet use of 15 year olds, 2015
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How is the digital transformation affecting people’s lives?
How’s Life in the Digital Age? shows that impacts can be positive as digital technologies expand the boundaries of information availability and enhance human productivity, but can also imply risks for people’s well-being, ranging from cyber-bullying to the
emergence of disinformation or cyber-hacking.
It also highlights current data limitations and makes recommendations to improve the measurement of the impacts of the digital transformation in various areas of well-being in the future.
Key fi ndings ► The digital transformation creates
both opportunities and risks for well-being, but they do not always go together.
► A digital divide remains, as some people are more capable than others of leveraging the digital transformation for a better life.
► Digital technologies improve lives by making human activities more efficient.
► Beyond pure digital skills, emotional and social skills are necessary to fully benefit from digital technologies. Extreme use of digital tools may create mental health risks.
How’s Life in the Digital Age?OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS OF THE DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR PEOPLE’S WELL-BEING
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POL
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ITA
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SVK
CZE
FRA
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PRT
NZL
LUX
AUS
BEL
HUN
DNK
NLD
ESP
SWE
GBR
CHL
OECD (2019), How’s Life in the Digital Age? https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264311800-en
Source: Based on OECD (2015), Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) (database), www.oecd.org/pisa/data.
Low parental education High parental educationTotal
Share of 15-year olds reporting to use the Internet for more than 6 hours a day on the weekend, by parental education
Extreme Internet use of 15 year olds, 2015
► A safe digital environment is a pre-condition to ensuring that people can fully benefit from digital technologies.
► How does your country fare? The Digital well-being wheel distinguishes clearly between risks (in yellow) and opportunities (in dark blue) of digital transformation.
Online job search
Onlineeduca�on
Lowerextended job strain
Inequality of usesE-waste per
person
Job stress
Digital skills
Varietyof uses
Labour market returns to ICT
tasks
Jobs at risk automa�on
Employment in ICT
Health informa�on
online Tele-working
ExtremeInternet use of
children
Digital skills gap
Digital resources at school
Digital social networking
Open government
Digital security
incidents
Access to Internet Internet
use
INCOME AND WEALTH
JOBS AND EARNINGS
WORK-LIFEBALANCE
HEALTH STATUS
EDUCATION AND SKILLS
SOCIAL CONNECTIONS
GOVERNANCEAND CIVIC
ENGAGEMENT
DIGITAL SECURITY
ICT ACCESSAND USAGE
Expressing poli�cal opinions
online
Lifesa�sfac�on
gains
Children experiencing cyberbullying
ENVIRONMENTALQUALITY
Online consump�on
Teachers' lack of ICT skills
Medical appointments
online
Lack of skills to access
e-gov services
Exposure to disinforma�on
online
Selling online
SUBJECTIVEWELL-BEING
Privacy abuse
Use of e-government
Worries about work when not working
Illustrative country wheel for Finland
OECD (2019), How’s Life in the Digital Age?: Opportunities and Risks of the Digital Transformation for People’s Well-being, OECD Publishing, Paris.
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