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9. POWER TO THE PEOPLE
› It’s bringing us closer to our nearest and dearest:
› Video constitutes 25% of smartphone traffic and 40%
of tablet traffic (Ericsson Mobility Report, 2012).
› Reuniting families:
› 185,000 people have registered on Refugees United’s
family-tracing platform (Refugees United).
› Redefining learning and education:
› Coursera hosts over 200 online courses for 1.3 million
students (BBC).
11. For USD 10 per month,
you can stream
20 million
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12. Transforming industry
DIGITIZATION RESULTS IN GROWTH OF ENTIRE MEDIA INDUSTRY
IN 2007 BY 2016
Media products USD 381 bn USD 352 bn
Online media services USD 21.7 bn USD 104 bn
TOTAL USD 402 bn USD 456 bn
15. BY 2020, ICT COULD REDUCE
OIL CONSUMPTION BY
21.6billion BARRELS
16. BRINGING PROGRESS
TO MILLIONS
› Kick-starting economies
› For every 10 percent increase in mobile and
broadband penetration, GDP increases by
1 percentage point.
› Doubling connection speeds yields a 0.3
percentage-point increase in GDP (Ericsson
and Arthur D. Little, 2010-2011).
› Banking the unbanked
› Up to 1/3 of Kenya’s GDP passes through
the mobile banking platform M-PESA
(TechCrunch, 2012).
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Innovation and revenue growth
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21. EXPANDING OUR INSIGHTS
ConsumerLab
Interviews more than
100,000 people in
over 40 countries
each year.
Ericsson Research
20,000 R&D
specialists around the
world developing the
networks of tomorrow
Networked
Society Lab
Researches ICT-
driven transformation
in society
Business Labs
Collaboration across
industries on the topic
of machine-to-
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23. A CONNECTED WORLD IS JUST
THE BEGINNING
When one person connects,
their world changes.
With everything connected,
our world changes. NETWORKED
SOCIETY
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Let’s get started.
We are on the brink of an extraordinary revolution that will change our world forever. The pace of change is extraordinary. It took 100 years to connect 1 billion places and only 25 years to connect 5 billion people. We forecast that by 2020 there will be 26 billion connected devices – well on the way to our vision of 50 billion.
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What this means is that our world is going through an incredible transformation – providing new tools for daily life, making business more efficient, and improving capabilities in society.
It’s about a transformation of people, business and society.
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It’s about empowering people.
ICT has proven to be a basic enabler of economic growth and an improved quality of life – while numerous academic reports highlight the connection between ICT and economic development. And for individuals in developing countries, ICT is facilitating some of the most fundamental human needs, such as education, health, safety and security.
The Networked Society will impact our lives in truly profound ways. It will creating more freedom and empowerment and opportunities to realize our full potential.
Connectivity is bringing us closer to our nearest and dearest, reuniting families and creating new opportunities for learning and education.
For example, initiatives such as the Khan Academy, where students take lessons at home and do homework in the classroom, are greatly impacting – and in some cases redefining – established educational models. Other initiatives such as Connect to Learn – which is a collaboration between Ericsson, The Earth Institute at Columbia University and Millennium Promise – uses the power of ICT to bring high-quality education to students everywhere. These are just a few example of how connectivity is creating new possibilities to realize our full potential.
Connectivity is also redefining business.
From consumer behavior to new business models and processes, technologies such as broadband, mobility and the cloud are transforming many aspects of the global marketplace – in both developed and emerging economies.
It’s disrupting established business models. Using widespread broadband connectivity, companies such as Skype and Spotify are helping consumers move beyond physical media into a social, collaborative and always-available networked experience. The approximately 1 billion playlists on Spotify are one example of the type of collaboration and engagement that connectivity is enabling.
We are talking about transforming whole industries.
The music industry is a good example of how one industry has embraced innovative new business models. Imagine what implications ICT might have for other industries, such as health care, education, transportation and energy. ICT to is a driving force for entrepreneurship as well. Studies show that a 1 percentage point increase in broadband increased new business registration by 3.8% (Stockholm School of Economics, 2012).
The automotive industry is another example of where connectivity is spawning new business models.
In 2013, Ford announced a developer program for apps that will enable content such as traffic and weather information and music to be brought into their automobiles. Likewise, Volvo Car Group has announced that it will use Ericsson’s Connected Vehicle Cloud to allow drivers, passengers and the car to connect to information, navigation, and entertainment services available in the cloud.
Finally, the Networked Society is about changing our world and everything in it.
The combined forces of mobility, broadband and the cloud will transform all parts of our society and by 2020, ICT will have brought about significant economic, social and environmental progress for hundreds of millions of people around the world.
And this is only just the beginning.
Over the next 25 years, advances in technology and infrastructure performance will continue to change our society, helping us to address poverty, human rights, climate change and other challenges. More intelligent electricity grids and connected transportation systems will significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), redefine urban landscapes and pave the way for a low-carbon economy.
The Climate Group’s SMARTer2020 report estimates that ICT-enabled solutions can deliver a potential reduction of 9.1 GtCO2e (gigatonnes of carbon equivalent) by 2020. This is 16.5 percent of the total in that year or the equivalent of about 21.6 billion barrels of oil!
There is also strong evidence to support a positive correlation between ICT and social and economic development. We see that connectivity has the potential to bring significant progress to millions of people around the world.
For example, there are about 2.5 billion people lack a bank account or are otherwise outside the realm of mainstream banking services. But now by tapping into the approximatly 4 billion mobile-phone users on the planet, there is now an exciting new opportunity to offer many of them basic financial services for the first time.
In the Networked Society, instantaneous information, interaction and collaboration will create innovative ways to meet the needs of people, business and society. Our role is to capture these opportunities and to work together with customers, partners and consumers to make these possibilities a reality.
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So we are just beginning to explore the possibilities of the Networked Society. By engaging in conversations with a broad range of stakeholders and by researching the value of mobility and connectivity, we will continue to uncover and share insights about our future connected world.
For example, the Networked Society Lab, researches ICT-driven transformation in society, industry and service provider business while Ericsson ConsumerLab each year interviews more than 100,000 empowered individuals in more than 40 countries to understand how their behaviors are changing.
To truly understand where we are headed, we will continue to gather insights and share information together with people and organizations from around the world.