Gerald Santucci Keynote Address at Global Forum 2012

Global Forum 2012Smart and innovative visions for the future

SHAPING A CONNECTED DIGITAL FUTUREVisions, Challenges, Opportunities for Organizations and People in a Smart World

Monday 12th & Tuesday 13th November 2012, Stockholm

Gérald Santucci, Head of UnitEuropean Commission, DG CONNECT 02 – Knowledge Sharing

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

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.

What is the Digital Agenda about?

Single European Market in digital sphere

Basic broadband for all Europeans by 2013 and faster rollout of

high speed internet

E-skills for all Europeans

Interoperability & standards

Trust & security online

ICT research & innovation

ICT solutions for ageing, climate change, cleaner transport, e-government, e-health …

ICT boosts productivity

•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)

Sources of average annual labour productivity growth, 2000-2007

Broadband drives competivenessCorrelation Fixed Broadband Penetration and Competitiveness

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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)

Still Europe is lagging in going digital

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Regular Internet users never use the Internet

Increase regular use from 60% to 75% - Halve the % of the population that have never used the internet by 2015

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)

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Communicate over theinternet

Look for a job or change jobwithin a year

Protect personal data

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eCommerce: citizens

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e-Commerce – not enough cross-border purchases

Target: 20% of the population should buy cross border online by 2015

Cross-border e-commerce

Source: Commission services based on COCOM Total number of subscription by households and enterprises divided by population.

Basic and high-speed broadband penetration: needs to increase

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Basic High-speed

• 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

Digital Agenda Scoreboard

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

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Energy positive

“Play & Rewind”

Bionics and cyborgs

Implanted/ Embedded (bio-neuro-cogno-nano)“Organic”

computing

Cloudcomputing

Energy efficient

Internet

Cognitive and soft robots

Complex systemsmodeling

Virtualisation

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Sustainability

Healthyageing

Resourceefficiency

Climatechanges

GovernanceTrust

Securityprivacy

Property,Ownership

Balancedresource sharing Participative

decision

Governance

~Immortality

Interim/beta status

Body/mind adaptation

Quantum Internet

Trans-humanism

Technological futures & related challenges (ver. 07/12)

“Conventional” ICT (Silicon based, Packet switching, Boolean, …)

Future foundatinos:ICT-Bio-Nano-Neuro-Cogno-

Quantum convergence

Stakeholder engagement

Online stakeholder engagement platform

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/

Connecting with local stakeholders

Monitoring country progress – explore open data

Digital Agenda Assembly

• 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.

Concluding Remarks

Thank you