tailieunhanh - NETWORKED SOCIETY CITY INDEX :  Triple-bottom-line effects of accelerated ICT maturity in cities worldwide

By the 1980s, however, manufacturing losses in both new and old plants were being exac- erbated by foreign competition. As the United States embraced free trade, the aggregate effect was beneficial, but in some sectors and regions adverse impacts were undeniable, especially in older cities. The rise of new competitors—notably from Japan—opened the way to globalization of consumer goods production, both durable and nondurable, that was cheaper and frequently better. In many sectors, domestic production as a percentage of sales fell sharply and in some cases, such as television manufacturing, dropped effec- tively to zero. Perhaps as important, whole new product lines, including consumer elec- tronics such as. | ERICSSON NETWORKED SOCIETY CITY INDEX Triple-bottom-line effects of accelerated ICT maturity in cities worldwide ERICSSON Ericsson Networked Society City Index Triple-bottom-line effects of accelerated ICT maturity in cities worldwide 1. Executive 2. City 3. The link between ICT and triple-bottom-line 4. Networked Society City 5. Key 6. Conclusions and next 2 ERICSSON 1. Executive summary The past 25 years have brought a digital age massive computing power high-speed data access and mobile communication. More recently we have seen the emergence of the cloud bringing communication and information technologies together in a new emerging ICT industry. Over the next 25 years advances in technology and infrastructure performance will continue to change our world. ICT has the potential to help us meet some of our great societal challenges. We call this new emerging society - of which we have so far only seen the beginning - the Networked Society. ICT has an interesting multiple nature both a service and a business in itself it is also a means for society to allow new ideas to prosper and new more efficient approaches to be developed. This multiple nature calls for new frameworks that give us a more complete view of its potential and allow us to realize these benefits. In this report Ericsson presents a Networked Society City Index which identifies the development of ICT-enabled benefits to cities. The aim is to create a broader discussion about the efficiency and innovation gains that ICT provides and to stimulate cross-sector dialog on successful strategies for realizing these benefits. A vital part in this ambition is the sharing of experiences good and bad. The index and its component dimensions capture this ambition and identify the ways in which ICT enables triple-bottom-line development - social economic and environmental - across society. The full index consists of three releases. The first release .