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OECD is seen as being very important to the educational world, policy making world especially,
because it sets standards and has well regarded comparisons among countries. There's one survey
called PISA which looks at children around the world and compares fifteen-year-olds in
reading and numeracy and other aspects of education problem solving and compares them
so that policy makers know which policies to adopt. As you well know, education, education
is usually seen as the key, the key to the future, but I think key is the wrong metaphor.
It's really more of a boarding pass. It's a boarding pass that can get you to the gate
to take you anywhere in the world to do anything you want to do and education is changing here
at the OECD too. The boarding passes used to be paper, now we have E-boarding passes,
and now we're going to E-education, open education resources. Resources that are online, that
are digital, that are available to everyone. It's becoming a public good education and
the standards and best practices and education materials that we've had available only in
very rich, very developed countries are now available to developing countries, they're
available to emerging economies, they're available to rich and poor students all over the world.