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)

Lower your thermostat and bring a reusable bag. Commute by bicycle and recycle. These are all everyday life actions, promoted to help the climate change crisis. But how is it decided what changes we should make in our lives? How easily do people change their behaviour? Can it actually make a difference? Understanding human behaviour works hand-in-hand with climate change policy and we're speaking about this with Chiara Varazzani, OECD lead behavioural scientist and Kevin Green, Vice President of RARE, Centre for Behaviour in the Environment.

To learn more about the OECD's work on behavioural science and the Behavioural Insights projects, go to OECD-opsi.org. To learn more about the OECD's work on climate, go to OECD.org/Climatechange. To learn more about RARE's work, go to Rare.org.

Guests: Chiara Varazzani, OECD lead behavioural scientist; Kevin Green, Vice President of RARE, Centre for Behaviour in the Environment

Host & Producer: Robin Allison Davis

Artificial intelligence played a pivotal role during the COVID-19 pandemic, from hastening diagnoses to supporting contract tracing and more. In this sense, the pandemic has already shown us how A.I. can benefit healthcare. But this seems just the beginning of revolution. What else can be done? What are the limits and risks of using artificial intelligence in health care? And how can we best ensure that it is both effective and trustworthy?

We’ll answer these questions with Lina Gálvez Muñoz, MEP from Spain, Vice Chair of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy, member of the European Parliament’s Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) and of the OECD Parliamentary Group on AI; and Karim Lekadir, head of EUCanImage, a four year AI research project aimed at making advances in oncology which has 20 partners across 11 countries.

This podcast is first in a series in 2022 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, also known as STOA.

Guests: Lina Gálvez-Muñoz, Karim Lekadir

Host: Robin Allison Davis

Producer: Samia Basille

To learn more about EUCanImage go to their website, EUCanImage.eu.

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

To learn more about the OECD Global Parliamentary Network, go to: https://www.oecd.org/parliamentarians/

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

James Henderson was 10 years old when he experienced how policies designed with the best intentions can have devastating effects for families affected by domestic violence. He tells OECD’s Monika Queisser about his personal journey from surviving family abuse to becoming a Social Worker, Probation Officer, Battering Intervention Provider and Expert Trainer on Tackling Domestic Violence. He explains why we often blame the victims, that not enough is done to stop the perpetrators, and how social services must listen to the families they are trying to help.

To learn more about the OECD's work on gender, go to: oecd.org/gender

Guest: James Henderson

Host: Monika Queisser

Producer: Samia Basille

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Everyone relies on data and statistics for making decisions in everyday life, whether at home or at work. Not having data would be like flying blind. But with so much information out there, how can we trust the numbers we read in the media or in official government sources, or for that matter, from the OECD? What are official statistics anyway, who produces them and what makes them so reliable? Do we have enough of the right kind of data for meeting today’s health, climate and other pressing challenges?

This OECD Podcast addresses such questions, and highlights the new technologies that have been transforming the world of statistics and data in recent years, and the digital tools professional statisticians are deploying to improve the quality, timeliness and trustworthiness of the data they provide and on which we all depend.

Host: Rory Clarke

Guest: Paul Schreyer, Head of OECD Statistics and Data Directorate

Russia's late February invasion of Ukraine has unleashed a devastating and ongoing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, with thousands of civilian deaths. At least four million Ukrainians have fled the country and nearly seven million are internally displaced. Beyond Ukraine, the conflict is upending the global economy, deepening pressure on vulnerable households still reeling from the pandemic. And with Russia and Ukraine as major exporters of wheat, the war could destabilise the global food supply and has prompted the U.N. to warn that food insecurity could rise. In March, the OECD released an in-depth report on the Economic and Social Impacts and Policy Implications of the War in Ukraine. The OECD estimates that global economic growth will drop by more than one percentage point this year due to the conflict, and already high inflation could rise by an additional 2.5 percentage points globally. In this podcast, OECD Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary General Laurence Boone discusses the conflict’s humanitarian and economic implications, and details the OECD’s recommendations for how governments can help insulate their populations from the impact.

Host: Karina Piser

Guest: Laurence Boone, OECD Chief Economist and Deputy Secretary General

Producer: Robin Allison Davis

For more information on the global economy and Ukraine crisis, go to: https://www.oecd.org/economic-outlook/

The gender equality gap in the tech industry has worsened in the last 40 years.

How can we lessen this the divide and make the tech industry more welcoming for everyone? We speak with Ayumi Moore Aoki, founder of Women in Tech, a global organization aiming to eliminate the gender digital divide by helping women learn digital skills, get hired in tech jobs and become leaders in the tech industry.

Host: Robin Allison Davis

Guest: Ayumi Moore Aoki, CEO & Founder of Women in Tech

To learn more about Women in Tech, go to: www.women-in-tech.org. To read the OECD report "Bridging the Digital Divide," go to: https://www.oecd.org/digital/more-needs-to-be-done-to-bridge-the-digital-gender-divide.htm

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The data is clear: environmental degradation especially affects women, and women are more motivated to do something about it. Why is this so? Join us as we discuss the complex, multi-faceted relationship between women, climate change, air pollution, domestic violence, and green technology patents with Ingrid Barnsley, Deputy Director of the Environment Directorate at the OECD.

For more information about the OECD Environment Directorate and its work on gender and the environment, go to www.oecd.org/environment

and https://www.oecd.org/environment/gender-inclusiveness-and-sdg.htm

Host: Christopher Mooney

Guest: Ingrid Barnsley, Deputy Director of the OECD Environment Directorate

Producer: Robin Allison Davis

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AI is everywhere, bringing many benefits but also reinforcing unfairness, misinformation and privacy invasion. What steps need to be taken to keep these risks in check? We find these answers and more, in our conversations with Karine Perset, head of the AI unit of the OECD Division for Digital Economy Policy and the OECD Policy Observatory and Dr Sebastian Hallensleben, co-chair of the AI Classification and Risk Assessment Working Group in OECD.

For more information on the OECD's work on AI, go to www.oecd.ai/classification

Host: Christopher Mooney

Guests: Karine Perset, head of the AI unit of the OECD Division for Digital Economy Policy and the OECD Policy Observatory

Dr Sebastian Hallensleben, co-chair of the AI Classification and Risk Assessment Working Group in OECD

Producer: Samia Basille

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In this episode of Truth Hurts, Monika Queisser speaks with Margaret Johnston-Clarke, the Global Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer for the L'Oréal Group, about actions employers can take. In the One in Three Women Network, multinational companies work together to support survivors amongst their own employees with concrete measures.

For more information and how to join the network, please contact Aurore Pereira de Oliveira at Fondation FACE ([email protected])

To listen to other OECD “Truth Hurts” Talks on Preventing Violence Against Women, please go to http://oe.cd/truth-hurts

Host: Monika Queisser

Producer: Robin Allison Davis, Samia Basille

To learn more about the OECD’s work on violence against women, please go to www.oecd.org/gender.

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