{"id":122,"date":"2006-01-31T10:52:12","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T14:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2006\/01\/31\/oecd-panel-on-user-behavior\/"},"modified":"2006-12-10T10:23:36","modified_gmt":"2006-12-10T14:23:36","slug":"oecd-panel-on-user-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/2006\/01\/31\/oecd-panel-on-user-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"OECD Panel On User Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a644\"><\/a>  I had the pleasure to chair a panel on new user habits and social attitudes at the OECD\u2019s Rome conference entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/site\/0,2865,en_21571361_35742275_1_1_1_1_1,00.html\">The Future Digital Economy: Digital Content Creation, Distribution and Access<\/a>.\u201d On the panel was a wonderful group of experts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. David Day, Nielsen\u2019s\/Net Ratings\u2019 Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa was presenting data on Internet use and online behavior with focus on the EU;<\/li>\n<li>Dr. John Horrigan, Associate Director for Research at the Pew Internet &amp; American Life Project presented recent surveys on broadband usage in the U.S.;<\/li>\n<li>David Sifry, Founder, President and CEO of Technorati was talking about the development and measurement of weblogs as well as the overall evolution of the blogosphere<\/li>\n<li>Frieda Brioschi, President Wikipedia and Wikimedia Italy, shared thoughts about current trends and developments in peer-production projects like Wikipedia; and<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Jens Uwe Intat used the case of games to show how emerging user habits and social attitudes are changing the ways we consume entertainment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From David Day\u2019s and John Horrigan\u2019s presentations I caught the following data points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 150 million W Europeans with Internet access and still growing.<\/li>\n<li>95% of established Internet users are using the Net at home, 49% at work, 23% at educational institutions, 18% in the Internet cafe, 14% in public libraries.<\/li>\n<li>The top-device to access the Internet is the Pc\/Mac (91%), followed by laptop (33%), mobile phones (18%), digital TV (5%), PDAs (4%) and game consoles (4%).<\/li>\n<li>Typical online behavior in a month includes: search (94%), general interest\/portals (86%), web services\/internet tools (75%), mass merchandisers (73%), auctions (66%), email (54%), online banking (53%) and community sites (53%).<\/li>\n<li>36% of adult Americans have high-speed connections at home.<\/li>\n<li>The following percentage of the age group 35 &amp; under has ever been engaged in the following activities: 20% blog; 39% sharing creative work online; 35% sharing any online content.<\/li>\n<li>A December survey by Pew shows that having a broadband connection at home continues to have a transformative impact on users. The three areas of impact are: (i) increased reliance on the Internet for news and information; (ii) heavy use of the Internet for gaming and entertainment; (iii) use of the Net to satisfy creative needs (amateur content production).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here are my personal take home points from the panel discussion:<\/p>\n<p>Empirical as well as anecdotal evidence (case studies) suggest fundamental changes in the way we access, use, create, and distribute information, knowledge, and entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>(1) Access:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Broadband has arrived and is creating a critical mass.<\/li>\n<li>In large part due to broadband technology, the Internet is increasingly embedded in our daily lives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(2) Use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Technology matters, too, not only specific user demographics.<\/li>\n<li>We heavily use services that require some sort of content intermediaries (search engines, news aggregators, games).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(3) Creation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weblogs play a key role in bottom-up content creation, both in the EU and the US.<\/li>\n<li>Peer-produced projects such as Wikipedia are prime examples of new modes of content production<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(4) Distribution:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Large-scale P2P file-sharing, for legitimate and illegitimate purposes, is persistent.<\/li>\n<li>Increasingly important is sharing of self-created content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In conclusion, it seems to me that we are at the beginning of a long, multi-layered discussion that is likely to be increasingly centered on <span style=\"font-style: italic\">access and creation<\/span> rather than (P2P) distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure to chair a panel on new user habits and social attitudes at the OECD\u2019s Rome conference entitled \u201cThe Future Digital Economy: Digital Content Creation, Distribution and Access.\u201d On the panel was a wonderful group of experts: Dr. David Day, Nielsen\u2019s\/Net Ratings\u2019 Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa was presenting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1179,1203,1195,1188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diversity","category-internet-stats","category-oecd","category-user-creativity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ugasser\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}