#globalforum2012

1. Global Forum 2012
Smart and innovative visions for the future
Gérald Santucci, Head of Unit
European Commission, DG CONNECT 02 – Knowledge Sharing
SHAPING A CONNECTED DIGITAL FUTURE
Visions, Challenges, Opportunities for Organizations and People in a Smart World
Monday 12th & Tuesday 13th November 2012, Stockholm

2. Political framework: Europe 2020
7 flagships
Digital Agenda for Europe
• Youth on the move
• Innovation Union
• An industrial policy for the globalisation era
• New skills for jobs
• European Platform against poverty
• Resource efficient Europe

3. Digital Agenda for Europe: background
• Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE) - key strand of
the Commission's EU2020 strategy.
• DAE: to establish sustainable economic growth
and social benefits via digital technologies.

4. What is the Digital Agenda about?
Single European Market
in digital sphere Interoperability & standards
Basic broadband for all
Europeans by 2013 and Trust & security online
faster rollout of
high speed internet ICT research & innovation
E-skills for all Europeans
ICT solutions for ageing,
climate change,
cleaner transport,
e-government, e-health …

5. ICT boosts productivity
Sources of average annual labour productivity growth, 2000-2007
•Investment in ICT generates a bigger return to productivity growth
•than most other forms of capital investment.
•(Source: Oxford Economics, Capturing the ICT Dividend, 2011)

6. Broadband drives competiveness
Correlation Fixed Broadband Penetration and Competitiveness
5.8
5.6 Sweden
WEF's Global Competitive Index score
Finland
Japan US UK Germany Netherlands
5.4 Denmark
5.2 Belgium
Austria France
5 Luxembourg Korea
4.8 Ireland
4.6 Estonia
Czech Rep. Spain
Poland Portugal Lithuania Italy
4.4 Cyprus
Hungary Slovenia Malta
4.2 Bulgaria Latvia
Slovakia
4 Romania
0.1 0.15 0.2 0.25 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45
Fixed broadband lines per 100 population
European Commission, 2011
A 10% increase in the broadband penetration rate results in 1 to 1.5% increase
in annual GDP per-capita. Faster broadband = higher GDP growth. (Czernich et al. -
University of Munich, 2009)

7. Still Europe is lagging in going digital

8. Increase regular use from 60% to 75% - Halve the % of the
population that have never used the internet by 2015
Regular Internet users and non-users in % of population
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
PT
AT
LT
T
R
IT
LU
O
LV
FI
PL
U
Y
FR
E
K
K
Z
L
SI
BG
27
IE
ES
SK
EE
BE
SE
M
N
C
C
D
U
D
G
H
R
EU
Regular Internet users never use the Internet

9. Confidence/trust in IT skills is low, especially those related to
work and privacy and security
% of people feeling confident in performing certain computer
and internet activities, 2011 (Scoreboard)
Protect private computer
from virus or other
computer infection
…only
Protect personal data 53% of
the active
Look for a job or change job
labour
within a year
force
Communicate over the
internet
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

10. e-Commerce – not enough cross-border purchases
Target: 20% of the population should buy cross border
online by 2015
eCommerce: citizens
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
CY
PL
NL
EU27
CZ
SI
FI
MT
LV
EE
ES
SK
IE
BE
DE
DK
SE
UK
FR
LU
GR
HU
RO
BG
IT
LT
PT
AT
bought online cross-border bought online

11. Cross-border e-commerce

12. Basic and high-speed broadband penetration:
needs to increase
45,0%
40,0%
35,0%
30,0%
25,0%
20,0%
15,0%
10,0%
5,0%
0,0%
RO BG SK PL LV PT EL HU IT LT CZ IE SI ES CY AT EE EU FI MT UK LU SE BE DE FR DK NL
Basic High-speed
Source: Commission services based on COCOM Total number of subscription by households and enterprises divided by
population.

13. Digital Agenda
Scoreboard
• Annual state of play of progress in
all 101 Digital Agenda actions in all
27 EU Member States
• Overall progress good:
• 38 actions completed
• 49 on track
• 14 actions behind schedule, but
delivery dates in 2012
• Forthcoming DAE Review will
provide analysis

14. DAE Review: on-going
• Why review: fast moving area, new developments, new
virtuous cycles of ICT use and savings both in public and
private sector – need to refocus DAE:
• Very Fast Internet
• Cloud Computing
• Internet security
• Entrepreneurship and ICT for Jobs & Skills
• Digital Single Market, including online public services
• A strategic research and innovation agenda

15. Technological futures & related challenges (ver. 07/12)
Challenges/Issues
Resource Trans-humanism
Climate ~Immortality
Sustainability efficiency Property,
changes Balanced
Ownership
resource Governance
Financial Interim/beta status
Trust sharing
crisis Participative
Healthy Security Governance
decision Body/mind adaptation
ageing privacy
Cloud Cognitive and
Complex Implanted/ Embedded
computing soft robots
Technologies
systems “Organic” (bio-neuro-cogno-nano)
Bionics
modeling computing
Internet and cyborgs
Energy Energy
Quantum Internet “Play &
efficient Virtualisation positive
Rewind”
“Conventional” ICT (Silicon based, Future foundatinos:
Foundations
Packet switching, Boolean, …) ICT-Bio-Nano-Neuro-Cogno-
Quantum convergence
2015-20 2040-50 15/10

16. Stakeholder engagement
Online stakeholder engagement platform
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/
Monitoring country Digital Agenda Assembly Connecting with
progress – explore local stakeholders
open data

17. Concluding Remarks
• DAE progress positive – but room for improvement. DAE Review
identifies solutions to barriers to Europe's digital transformation.
• Going Local, DAA and online platform are important sources for
acquiring stakeholder feedback and input – we will continue to
engage.
• Commitment - political and financial - vital to secure Europe's
place in a globally competitive digital future.

18. Thank you