1. 50 Delivering Digital Infrastructure: Advancing the Internet Economy
Acknowledgements
The World Economic Forum’s Delivering Digital Infrastructure initiative is a global, multistakeholder effort to ensure digital infrastructure
deployments are able to support the promise of the digital economy.
The project engaged a multistakeholder community of government, private sector, civil society and academia.
Sincere thanks are extended to the Steering Committee which helped guide the project.
AT&T Steve McGaw Chief Marketing Officer
Baidu.com Jing Wang Vice-President, Engineering
Bharti Airtel Manoj Kohli Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, International
Huawei Technologies Ken Hu Deputy Chairman
Liberty Global Manuel Kohnstamm Senior Vice-President and Chief Policy Officer
Microsoft Corporation Jan Mühlfeit Chairman, Microsoft Europe
Qualcomm Anand Chandrasekher Senior Vice-President, Business Development, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc
Salesforce.com J.P. Rangaswami Chief Scientist
Telefonica Carlos López Blanco Global Head, Public and Corporate Affairs
Thanks are also extended to the Working Group members for their active participation, collaborative spirit and, most importantly, unique
insights.
AT&T Eric Loeb Vice-President, International External Affairs
Baidu.com Alex Cheng Vice-President, USA
Bharti Airtel Willie Ellis Director, Products and Innovation
BT Garry Miller Head, Group Public Policy
Cisco Andy Blackburn Vice-President, Strategic Marketing
Google Derek Slater Policy Analyst
Burda Media Michael Tenbusch Vice-President, Broadcast Media
Index Ventures Shardul Shah Principal
Level 3 Communications Nicolas Pujet Senior Vice-President, Corporate Strategy
Liberty Global Michael Bryan-Brown Managing Director, Regulation and Competition Policy
Liberty Global Maurice de Valois Turk Director, Regulatory Economics
Microsoft Corporation David Tennenhouse Vice-President, Technology Policy
Microsoft Corporation Sharon Gillett Principal Strategist, Technology Policy
Netflix Colin Bortner Manager, Government Relations
Qualcomm Haleh Partow Vice-President, Technical Marketing, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Qualcomm Ryan Gorostiza Senior Director, Marketing, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Salesforce.com Shubber Ali Vice-President, Innovation
Spotify Will Page Director of Economics
Telefonica Pablo Pfost Head of Group Regulatory Affairs
Telenor Group Torgeir Hovden Chief Technology Officer, Telenor Digital
Telenor Group Olav Kolbu Chief Technology Officer and Vice-President, Technology, Telenor Digital
Services
TeliaSonera Rune Pedersen Vice-President, Consumer Mobility
VimpelCom Hany Bedair Chief Technology Officer, Orascom Telecom
VimpelCom Mohamed Hosny Director, Managed Services and Outsourcing, Orascom Telecom
The global dialogue included sessions at the Dead Sea, Jordan; Singapore; Palo Alto, USA; Dalian, People’s Republic of China; Brussels,
Belgium; Davos, Switzerland; and Barcelona, Spain. Thanks are extended to all participants at these events who participated in the dialogues.
Finally, additional thanks go to David Kirkpatrick, Chief Executive Officer, Techonomy Media, for moderating dialogues at the Annual Meeting of
the New Champions 2013 and the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014.
The Forum is also grateful for the generous commitment and support of The Boston Consulting Group in its capacity as project adviser.
Special thanks are extended to David Dean and John Corwin of The Boston Consulting Group. John Corwin served as the primary author of
this report and his tireless efforts are to be commended. We would also like to thank David Duffy for his assistance in the writing of this report.