The World Economic Forum has recently launched The Global Information Technology Report 2013. In this presentation we have tried to put some important find outs from the same report and few other news and information from global media.

1. ICT Sector Worldwide Update
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2. “The ICT sector accounts for up
to 7.5% of GDP worldwide.”
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“ In advanced economies, for every single percentage point
increase in broadband penetration in a particular area,
employment growth is estimated to increase 0.2 to 0.3
percentage points per year. ”
“ Broadband networks provide a constructive platform for
addressing a variety of public challenges including health
care, education, homeland security, and workforce/ economic
development. ”
ICT Facts
Source: intel.com

3. Economies spending in ICT will be getting following benefits.
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ICT Advantages
Source: The Economic Benefits of Strategic ICT Spending by White paper Published by Intel
Creation of high-skilled, high-paying jobs.
Improved international competitiveness.
“Spillover effect,” creating opportunities in many other industries.
Better quality of life through enhanced education, health care, etc.
Stronger, more competitive small and medium businesses.
Improvement of national and global commerce through easier and faster
creation, distribution, and consumption of information.
Development of ICT workforce with knowledge and skills to export
technology to trade partners.

4. Are you ready for ICT Infrastructure? Because if you’re not
ready, you’ll waste your investment
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Cautions
Companies/Economies that don’t have standardized digital infrastructure,
digital platforms and processes could find themselves with a much lower
chance of getting value out of their investments and at the same
competitive level as companies that don’t make any IT investments at all.
Simply adopting the newest technologies and doing so quickly can increase
the risk of causing infrastructure mismanagement which can lead to
project failure.
Companies that have more standardized digital platforms at the level of
systems data and processes have more than twice the chance of getting
value out of their investment in these technologies..

5. Senior Management Teams/Policy Makers/ Decision Makers
should assess the “key business enablers (KBE)”. Sustaining these
KBE itself a big task because it requires organizational level
support and involvement. The KBE includes..
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Solution
Source: INSEAD
Achieving and sustaining a sufficient level of
standardization and sharing of technology,
business processes and data components
across the enterprise.
Gaining access to both IT-savvy business leaders and
business-savvy IT managers
Involving business management in all IT-related
investments and management
decisions
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6. Companies in Asia Pacific region are top investors in ICT,
investing a much greater percentage of their total ICT budgets in
new technologies than in Europe.
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ICT Investment Scenario
Source: INSEAD
Some 225 technology leaders from companies doing business in North America,
Europe and Asia Pacific.
Mobility is expected to consume 24 percent of IT spending two years from now
compared with 14 percent three years ago.
Collaboration tools are expected to increase from 16 percent three years ago to 20
percent by 2015.
Cloud-based services will see the fastest growth: from 11-26 percent over by 2015.
These new technologies are expected double corporate competitiveness – from 35
percent to 72 percent.

7. NRI has provided decision makers with a useful conceptual
framework to evaluate the impact of ICTs at a global level, and to
benchmark the ICT readiness and the usage of their economies.
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NRI (Network Readiness Index)
Source: World Economic Forum

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NRI Top Rankers
Source: World Economic Forum
Rank (2013) Country/ Economy Score Rank (2012)
1 Finland 5.98 3
2 Singapore 5.96 2
3 Sweden 5.91 1
4 Netherlands 5.81 6
5 Norway 5.66 7
6 Switzerland 5.66 5
7 United Kingdom 5.64 10
8 Denmark 5.58 4
9 United States 5.57 8
10 Taiwan, China 5.47 11

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Recent Updates
Source: INSEAD
According to IT analysts IDC, eICT spending in the Asia-Pacific region is set to
increase by 26% to $3,018B in 2013. $775B of that figure will stem from ICT alone.
Mobility is expected to consume 24 percent of IT spending two years from now
compared with 14 percent three years ago.
Collaboration tools are expected to increase from 16 percent three years ago to 20
percent by 2015.
Cloud-based services will see the fastest growth: from 11-26 percent over by 2015.
These new technologies are expected double corporate competitiveness – from 35
percent to 72 percent.

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Recent Updates Continues
China's ICT industry is expected to keep expanding in 2013 and reach the scale of
360.5 billion U.S. dollars, with a year-on-year growth of 8.9 percent, according to
International Data Corporation’s estimate.
In India NASSCOM released the Narayana Murthy Committee recommendations
for the country. According to this vision, Indian IT companies should aim to build a
US$300 billion ICT industry by 2020. Good news is Google is willing to invest about
US$10 million to nurture 10,000 new businesses in five years in India.
Brazil is the largest ICT market in South America, after Mexico. It is also one of the
largest IT markets within the emerging economies. IT end-user spending in Brazil is
expected to grow to $134 billion in 2014
The European Commission has presented an €80 billion package for research and
innovation funding, as part of the drive to create sustainable growth and new jobs
in Europe out of which €13.78 billion is allocated for ICT sector. As a whole, the
information and communication technologies (ICT) sector represents 4.8% of the
EU economy. It generates 25% of total business expenditure in Research and
Development (R&D), and investments in ICT account for 50% of all European
productivity growth.

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Recent Updates Continues
While public sector investment in ICT in Africa has improved considerably over the
last decade, the private sector continues to be the key driver for investment and
has invested close to $50 billion over the last decade. In 2007, the private sector
committed to increase investment in telecommunications from $35 billion to $50
billion by 2012-2013.
The Ethiopian government is to spend $250 million to construct a knowledge
facility in three years time. To hasten the process, local and international
companies are already in rush to book space at the Ethio ICT Park that is being
pushed by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MoCIT).
The Nigerian government has made available $1 billion for the construction of ICT
incubation centres throughout the country to stimulate growth in local software
content. The objective of these incubation centres would be to create 25
successful information communication technology (ICT) firms by 2015
Rwanda received Korea’s Multi-Million Dollar ICT Investment recently. According
to the report given by Rwanda Focus the ICT Innovation Centre will be set up at
the Integrated Polytechnic Regional Center (IPRC) Kigali Campus and the
contribution by KOICA is valued at $5.6 million.

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References
•http://www.intel.com/Assets/PDF/whitepaper/Economic_Benefits_of_ICT_Spending.pdf
•http://knowledge.insead.edu/leadership-management/operations-management/dont-waste-your-ict-
investments-2404
•http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/beaming-searchlight-on-ict-sector-in-2013/144612/
•http://www.nairaland.com/1260078/nigeria-invests-1b-construction-ict
•http://www.ameinfo.com/middle-easts-ict-industry-eyes-biggest-332363
•http://www.africasciencenews.org/en/index.php?
option=com_content&view=article&id=799:ethiopia-plans-usd025b-ict-
park&catid=45:hitech&Itemid=116
•http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-11-848_en.htm
•http://www.thecentralbanker.com/ict-market-in-russia-grows-by-26-to-exceed-aed-62-billion-
%C2%96-al-marri/