To mark the 20th anniversary of EU Single Market the British Embassy hosted a half-day Forum, “Digital is GREAT”, to focus on an EU digital single market on Thursday 1 November 2012 at the British Ambassador's Residence.This is part of my keynote presentation at that event

1. What is digital?
representing
data
as a series of
numerical values

2. How great is
digital?
How big is the information?

3. Yottabyte
one septillion (one long scale quadrillion or 1024) bytes (one
quadrillion gigabytes).
As of 2012, no storage system or network has achieved even one
thousandth of a yottabyte (a zettabyte) of information.
The combined space of all computer hard drives in the world was
estimated at approximately 160 exabytes in 2006, and as of 2009, the
Internet was estimated to contain close to 500 exabytes.[2]

4. The first use of
information

5. Press

6. the Internet

7. Data Vs Time
every minute
users
upload
48 hours of video on youtube

8. Data Vs Time
every minute
users send
204.406.467 emails

9. Data Vs Time
every minute
google receives
2.000.000 searches

10. Data Vs Time
every minute
users share
680.000 status updates

11. every minute
twitter users send
100.000 tweets

12. add mobile

13. every minute
47.000 APP
DOWNLOADS

14. every minute
the mobile web
receives 270 new
users

15. Digital is Great

16. Enabling the digital single market and recognising the
potential
really fast

17. how to cope
?

18. Creativity
=
Innovation
Knowledge
Adaptability

19. New Generation

20. swim against the
tide

21. Student
Consumer
Business
Country
Ecosystem
Paradigm

24. Greece
... if you make it there you can
make it anywhere

25. Creating an
ecosystem

28. Change your
prespective

29. Pivot the curriculum
flip the classroom

35. Nature and technology will work
as one

36. connecting the
HUBS

37. When Connected into a
swarm, even small and Stupid
THOUGHTS become SMART

38. George Giannakeas
www.niobiumLabs.com
www.warp.ly
@gioris