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A mobile phone will not end poverty, but it will empower people to lift themselves out of poverty. And poverty is a root cause of conflict. 
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In its recent report, “Market Trends: Monetizing Gartner’s Nexus of Forces in the Enterprise Software Markets.”, Gartner says that cloud, mobility and big data will drive more than 26 percent of total enterprise software market revenue by 2017. Cloud, mobility, big data and apps are the building blocks of the Networked Society and are already in place – much sooner than expected. The impact of this is that enterprise software markets will outpace the overall market growth.
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Ericsson's NEST (Networked Society) event focused on urbanization. Here of 12 takeaways from the event.
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The study asked smartphone users to evaluate new service concepts related to the areas of city life they are most satisfied with - the availability of shopping, restaurants, and leisure facilities. Examples of new services include: social restaurant guides, a digital real-time trainer, situational shopping recommenders, mobile menus and table reservations, and same-day goods delivery.
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I was recently participating in an innovation workshop attended by some of the leading organizations in the North American telecom market. We were brainstorming when somebody made the following comment: “We as an industry are in a great place. The phone has become central to all interaction – it’s in the middle of everything and all others work around it, through it, and with it.” Everybody liked that comment. Everybody agreed. It made everybody feel good. There was only one small problem.
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There will be 19 trillion devices connected to the Internet — 14 trillion in private sector and around 5 trillion in public sector — in the coming two decades, according to a top executive at the US-based Cisco.
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Ericsson initiated and hosted its first NEST (Networked Society) forum in Hong Kong in 2011 to focus on education and its global possibilities. Its second NEST event, in Miami Nov. 19, focused on urbanization. By 2019 there will be 9.3 billion mobile subscribers, and by 2050, 70 percent of people in the world will live in cities. Event presenters and participants considered how wireless carriers, wireless network providers, city planners, city governments and savvy businesses can plan for and optimize so much traffic, both physical and wireless. And, properly planned for, could a more densely situated and thoroughly networked society be a more efficient one? One with better and more accessible health care and education resources? One that's more informed as a whole, smarter about traffic, able to better care for its elderly, and on the whole more flexible, agile and informed? Information and Communications Technology (ICT) maturity, Ericsson said in a report released during the event, is an indication of how well-positioned a city is to deliver products and services effectively and encourage new collaboration in an intensely connected world. Below are 12 takeaways from a day of lectures, conversations and big thinking about what's to come. - See more at: http://www.eweek.com/networking/slideshows/ericsson-predicts-a-mobile-networked-society-by-2050.html#sthash.KYFKmC3L.dpuf
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