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Third Industrial Revolution Consulting Group<br />

OVERVIEW<br />

SMART ECONOMY<br />

Luxembourg already ranks number one in<br />

Internet penetration in the European Union,<br />

with 100% coverage. 99.4% of households have<br />

mobile phones and 94% of all households have<br />

computers. Eight out of every ten households<br />

have high speed access. In addition, 9 out of 10<br />

businesses use broadband connection. 281<br />

Co-Chairs Claude Strasser and Mario Grotz, and<br />

the Luxembourg Smart Economy Working<br />

Group;<br />

Michael Waidner (Fraunhofer SIT), Philipp<br />

Krüger (Fraunhofer SIT), Giovanni Corazza<br />

(University of Bologna), and Jeremy Rifkin, TIR<br />

Consulting Group LLC<br />

Luxembourg also boasts a highly advanced ICT<br />

sector which accounts for 6.6% of the total gross added value of the country. The ICT sector<br />

accounts for 4% of employment in Luxembourg. Moreover, Luxembourg hosts some of the<br />

leading ICT companies including Amazon, Ebay, Vodafone, and Rakuten. 282<br />

These numbers constitute an important starting point for the continuous build-up of a growing<br />

ICT infrastructure in Luxembourg that must be able to sustain the exponential traffic growth<br />

rates foreseen in the future. For example, world mobile data traffic is expected to grow to 30.6<br />

exabytes per month by 2020. 283<br />

Tim Berners-Lee put the World Wide Web online in 1990. Today, a younger generation is<br />

studying in global classrooms via Skype and FaceTime, socializing with cohorts around the world<br />

on Facebook, gossiping with hundreds of millions of peers on Twitter, sharing photos on<br />

Snapchat, contributing to the knowledge of the world on Wikipedia, tapping into virtually all of<br />

the information generated in the world on Google, and taking free Massive Open Online<br />

College Courses and receiving credits.<br />

The World Wide Web is simple in design and acute in impact. The Web allows anyone, anytime,<br />

anywhere, to share information with anyone else, without having to ask permission or pay a<br />

royalty fee. The Web is designed to be open, universally accessible, and distributed.<br />

281 See: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Information_society_statistics_-<br />

_households_and_individuals<br />

282 See: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/7141198/4-21012016-AP-EN.pdf<br />

283 Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2015–2020,<br />

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/service-provider/visual-networking-index-vni/mobile-whitepaper-c11-520862.pdf<br />

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