OUR VISION AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES
8. The G7 Countries have the opportunity to lead the world into a new era, when
innovation and transformative technologies will enhance the economic and
social well-being of all our citizens and help achieve the 2030 Agenda for
Sustainable Development. Through dialogue and international cooperation, our
aim is to turn our shared vision into action, challenges into opportunities, and
disparities into inclusive growth, to serve human progress, environmentally,
socially and economically.
9. Our approach aims to be forward-looking with the goal of utilizing technologies
for sustainable growth, productivity gains and improvement in living standards
that are widely diffused, within and amongst nations, across frontiers and
sectors of the economy, among enterprises of different sizes and all layers of
society. To achieve this and to ensure everyone is able to make the most out of
new technologies, it is crucial that we continue to reflect the new opportunities
and challenges they bring.
10. Our policy aims at sustainable economic growth, taking into account that in our
countries Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) account for more than 50% of
GDP, and 56% of employment2 contributing disproportionally to job creation3,
innovation and social inclusion.
11. We believe we need to further develop our common vision to seize the
opportunities and tackle the evolving challenges of the new economy which
relies on the participation of all countries and on collective action. We
therefore reaffirm our shared goals expressed last year in the OECD Ministerial
Declaration on the Digital Economy (“Cancún Declaration”4).
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OECD Statistics Directorate estimates based on OECD SDBS database and Labour Force Surveys,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/entrepreneur_aag-2016-en
3 OECD estimates from DynEmp v.2 database.
4 Adopted by the Ministers and representatives of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile,
Colombia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,
Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain,
Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Union,
assembled in Cancún, Mexico, on 22-23 June 2016.
G7 ICT and Industry Ministerial Meeting 2017│ MAKING THE NEXT PRODUCTION REVOLUTION INCLUSIVE, OPEN
AND SECURE
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