The document discusses how governments can help societies fully realize the benefits of networked technologies. It argues that while technology provides great promise for well-being, living standards, and social progress, its benefits are not automatic and require resilient public policies to maximize gains. Policymakers need to craft reform agendas that promote widespread adoption of ICT, address regulatory challenges, and get the fundamentals of innovation and diffusion right to achieve an ICT-led transformation of the economy and society.

1. Networked
Society
Seize
Transformation
RENE SUMMER
CARPE MUTATIONEM

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Networked Society comes
with A great promise
WELL BEING
STANDARD
OF LIVING
QUALITY
OF LIFE
SOCIAL
PROGRESS
NATIONAL
COMPETITIVENESS

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Why policy makers need to
act?
Benefits are
not automatic
No deterministic built
in design in to
technology
There are also
challenges that
must be addressed
Which shapes the size
and sustainability of
benefits
Must be backed
by resilient &
adequate policy
Technology can’t
do it alone
WELLBEING
FIRM AND DURABLE POLICY COMMITMENT CAN DELIVER
STRUCTURAL CHANGE WITH LASTING BENEFITS

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Craft resilient
public policies that
can enable
structural
transformation of
economy and
society
How can policy makers make
Networked Society a reality?
Formulate and
implement a
cohesive reform
agenda that will
maximize benefits
of an ICT-led
transformation
Address key ICT-
specific policy
issues that shape
the conditions of
technologies
underpinning the
Networked society
FIRM Policy
Commitment
REFORM
AGENDA
ICT
POLICIES

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A firm policy commitment
DIFFUSION & ADOPTION
CROSS SECTORS
HOLISTIC APPROCH
A PRECONDITION
INCREMENTALISM
NOT GOOD ENOUGH
Consumer
Goods & Retail
Manufac-
turing &
Logistics
Banking
Energy &
Mining
Education
& Health
Media &
Entertain-
ment
Telecom
& Internet
Transport
& Travel
ICT
IMPACT
ICT-LED TRANSFORMATIONAL CHANGE
INNOVATION DRIVEN
GROWTH

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Getting the fundamentals
right !
WHAT DOES IT TAKE FOR A SOCIETY TO BENEFIT FROM
TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS
INNOVATIONINVENTION
DIFFUSION &
ADOPTION
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
& POLICY
• Politics shaping incentives
• Not all private profit seeking ….
• Market failures
• Reactionary public institutions,
Regulatory failures
• State – different layers of authority
– alignment – systemic failures

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› Sustained economic long term growth
› Increase competitiveness of nations and
industries
› Create new jobs/business
› Minimize exclusion and poverty, increase
equality
› Increase public sector efficiency
› Address climate change, environment
and ageing population
› Manage scarce resources more
efficiently
› Cope with increasing level of
urbanization
REFORM
AGENDA
THIS IS NOT
A DESTINATION BUT
A CONTINUOUS
JOURNEY

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Key ICT policy issues
ICT
Supply
Side
Roll-out of ICT infrastructure Scarce resource managementMarket Efficiency
3. Spectrum Management1. National Broadband Plans 2. Network Regulation
New consumer expectations, value-
chain shifts and new business models
ICT empowerment for increased
innovation and efficiency in industrial
sectors
ICT
Demand
Side
Privacy Protection
5. Media & Content Regulation
4. Industrial Internet /
Internet of things
6. Data Protection
Horizontal
frameworks
impacting
ICT supply &
demand Market access, Digital Services, Cross
Border Data Flows,
Meta Regulation Investment Incentives, Licensing,
Diffusion
8. Trade Policies7. Internet governance 9. IPR

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CARPE MUTATIONEM
TOGETHER WE CAN
MASTER THE
TRANSFORMATION