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How can we all help shape better policies for better lives? OECD Podcasts bring you insightful interviews with experts and well-known personalities on such pressing challenges as inequality and inclusive growth, the economy, jobs, the digital transformation, climate change, the environment, education, healthcare, tax, trade, international co-operation, and more.

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OECD Podcasts | Tackling COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has not affected everyone equally, and people of colour have paid a particularly high price, whether in terms of lives lost among vulnerable frontline workers or higher unemployment and economic hardship, or even by being left out of vaccine rollouts. The coronavirus crisis has exposed the need to step up the fight against racism and discrimination, spurred on by global protests and campaigns such as Black Lives Matter, and the OECD is urging policymakers to make sure everyone gets their fair share in the economic recovery phase. Valerie Wilson, Director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy in the United States, spoke with Robin Davis about what must be done to put an end to these racial injustices once and for all.

Guest: Valerie Wilson, Director of the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity and the Economy
Host: Robin Allison Davis
Production Team: Samia Basille, Editor; Rory Clarke 

To learn more on the OECD's work on inequality, go to: www.oecd.org/WISE  To learn more on the OECD's work on the Covid-19 pandemic, go to: www.oecd.org/coronavirus     

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Why ending racial inequality is vital for COVID-19 recovery, with Valerie Wilson

Computer algorithms shape our lives and increasingly control our future. They have crept into virtually every aspect of modern life and are making life-changing choices on our behalf, often without us realising. But how much power should we give to them and have we let things go too far? Joanna Bale talks to Ken Benoit, Andrew Murray, Seeta Peña Gangaradhan, Alison Powell and Bernhard Von Stengel.
Research links: Hello World by Hannah Fry; 
Information Technology Law: The Law and Society by Andrew Murray; 
Explanations as Governance? Investigating practices of explanation in algorithmic system design by Alison Powell (forthcoming).

LSE iQ is a university podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Do algorithms have too much power?

In April 2021, the European Union unveiled a proposal for unprecedented regulations on the use of AI technologies — with implications for companies, governments, and citizens alike. The tide seems to be shifting, with private companies facing increasing scrutiny. We will hear how regulation can promote innovation, and how citizens can be brought into the discussion.

This episode is the second in a series on artificial intelligence, brought to you by the OECD’s Global Parliamentary Network and the European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA).

Guests: Deirdre Clune, Lina Galvez Munoz, Andrea Renda
Host: Karina Piser
Producer: Samia Basille

To learn more about the EU Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology’s work on AI, go to: www.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/en/home/highlights

To learn more about the OECD’s work on AI, go to: oecd.ai

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Artificial Intelligence: Regulation Can Support Innovation

Cultural and creative sectors have been profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The overall contribution to global gross value added (GVA) of the sector fell by around 21% between 2019-20. 10 million jobs were lost worldwide in these industries. However, the impact of the pandemic has been uneven. Businesses with strong digital content have done very well, such as the gaming and music streaming services. Public support measures helped to cushion some of the COVID-19 blow, but now we need a sharper focus on the diverse needs of culture and creative industries for a stronger recovery.  
To learn more about the OECD's work in culture, go to: oe.cd/pub/culture. 

Guest: Katia Travkina – OECD Policy Analyst, Culture and Creative Sectors
Host: Shayne MacLachlan - Communications and Public Affairs Manager, OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE)

Creative Re-construction: a comeback for culture in the COVID-19 recovery?

It’s been a tough two years for women. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, women were hit harder by job losses, leading many to call it a “she-cession”. But as the pandemic worse on we started to see wider impacts too. We saw women on the front line of the crisis response, making up 75% of the workforce in health and social care. Women were taking on more work at home due to school and childcare closures. We saw women feeling more isolated from social network.

We also saw a shadow pandemic – the rise in domestic violence as lockdowns trapped women with abusive partners. These took their toll. After two years, more than 40% of women in Europe were reporting that the pandemic had a major negative impact on their mental health. These cumulative effects are what we call the Great Exhaustion. What about women entrepreneurs and how should local governments deal with the great exhaustion and support women with care responsibilities?

Host: Andrew Paterson
Guest: Rae Cooper, Professor of Gender, Work and Employment Relations at the University of Sydney, Australia

Worn out: COVID-19, Women and the Great Exhaustion

Digital assistants, big data, biometric scanning, augmented virtual and mixed reality – all of these things and more are changing how we work. Raphael Gielgen, trend scouter on the future of work at the Swiss design firm, Vitra, talks about how the workplace is keeping up with technology.

Host: Clara Young
Producer: Robin Allison Davis

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The office of the future…now with Vitra’s Raphael Gielgen

Propaganda and disinformation have been around since at least the ancient Romans. Now, false and falsified information spreads rapidly and we have social media platforms and mass messaging systems to thank for that. Hossein Derakhshan, media analyst and co-author of the 2017 report "Information Disorder" published by the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center, explains how we can counter disinformation and why he doesn't like the term "fake news". 

Host: Clara Young
Producer: Robin Allison Davis

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Fake check: Hossein Derakhshan on information warfare

There are many forces at work splintering the digital public sphere. Automated bots flood the internet with disinformation, creating confusion. Online abuse is another way of shutting down civil dialogue. Seyi Akiwowo is a crusader for a safer cyberspace. She founded Glitch in 2017 after enduring online abuse.

www.fixtheglitch.org

Host: Clara Young
Producer: Robin Allison Davis

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Trolling, doxxing & swatting: how online abuse is destroying the civic cybersphere

Machine learning, or artificial intelligence, can be traced back to the 1950s, but really leapt forward in the last decade or so thanks to more powerful computing. AI is at the wheel when it comes to driverless cars, and is used by farmers to monitor crops, and by the police to solve crime. It has promise in health care too, including to better detect COVID-19. Could AI go too far, as machines teach machines, and even learning human emotions and tastes, yet with very little control by human beings. Policymakers are now taking AI seriously, to safeguard public interests, and to develop AI sensibly, as well as intelligently. 

The OECD AI Observatory is working to help make sure that AI does not evolve alone and keeps the human touch. 

To find out more, go to www.oecd.ai

Hosts: Robin Allison Davis, Shayne Maclachlan, Clara Young
Producer: Rory Clarke, Robin Allison Davis
Guests: 
Audrey Plonk, Head of OECD Digital Economy Policy Division, 
Kathleen Walch, Cognilytica Principal Analyst, 
Jack Clark, Open AI Head of Policy

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All about AI: Should we be concerned about artificial intelligence?

Shoshana Zuboff is the author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: A Fight for a Human Future and the New Frontier of Power. Her book's release is very timely considering the impact of COVID-19. Collection and use of private data have expanded, bringing privacy concerns even further to the fore. What does the digital acceleration in this pandemic mean for our future? Shoshana Zuboff spoke with Anthony Gooch, Director of the OECD's Public Affairs and Communications directorate, for a podcast hosted during OECD's 2020 Forum Virtual Events to mark the OECD's 60th anniversary. 

Host: Anthony Gooch
Interviewee: Shoshana Zuboff, author of "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: A Fight for a Human Future and the New Frontier of Power"
Producers: Robin Allison Davis, Samia Basille

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What data and digitalisation could mean for your democratic future with Shoshana Zuboff

Globalisation has brought major benefits for businesses, but at the same time it has enabled large multinational firms to book their profits in countries with low or no tax, rather than where they carry out their business activity. Governments lose out because shifting profits in this way can erode the tax base. Moreover, the digital economy adds to the challenge of working out how much international companies owe in tax and to which countries, in part because digital firms may not have a physical presence in the places they do business in. The OECD, which launched the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) initiative in 2013, has been leading international talks to address these issues, and is aiming towards a landmark agreement on new tax rules in 2021. Grace Perez-Navarro, deputy director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, explains the issues. 

To learn more about the OECD's initiatives on tax, visit: https://www.oecd.org/tax
To learn more about the OECD's initiatives on tax, visit: https://www.oecd.org/tax

Host: Rory Clarke
Guest: Grace Perez-Navarro
Producer: Samia Basille

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Tax in a digital world: Why new international rules matter for everyone

International Women's Day on 8 March is particularly important this year, as COVID-19 threatens decades of progress towards gender equality. In this tale of two different cities, and in association with the OECD Champion Mayors initiative, Karina Piser talks to Mayor Lisa Helps of Victoria, British Columbia in Canada, and Diana Rodriguez Franco, the Secretary of Women's Issues in Bogotá, Colombia, about the challenges they face, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and the progress they have made in the fight against discrimination. They explain how women in leadership make a difference. 

To learn more about the OECD's Gender initiative, visit: www.oecd.org/gender
To learn more about the OECD's Champion Mayors initiative, visit: http://www.oecd-inclusive.com/champion-mayors

Host: Karina Piser
Guests: Lisa Helps and Diana Rodriguez Franco
Producer: Samia Basille, Rory Clarke

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Fighting gender inequality in cities: Lessons from women in leadership

How can we all help shape better policies for better lives? OECD Podcasts bring you insightful interviews with experts and well-known personalities on such pressing challenges as inequality and inclusive growth, the economy, jobs, the digital transformation, climate change, the environment, education, healthcare, tax, trade, international co-operation, and more.


NOTE: The opinions expressed and arguments employed in the content displayed herein do not necessarily reflect the official views of the OECD, its Member countries, or any stakeholders who have contributed to or participated in any related work.