Trends in connectivity technologies and their socioeconomic impacts

Final report of the study: Policy Options for the Ubiquitous Internet Society

Jonathan Cave, Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau, Helen Rebecca Schindler, Alaa Shehabi, Philipp-Bastian Brutscher, Neil Robinson

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This report contains a review of technology trends underlying the future Internet Society. It assesses the possible future socio-economic impacts; as well as the changing business models that are likely to emerge in the next 5 to 10 years. The ultimate objective of the study is to make future policy recommendations for the successor programme to the current EU’s ICT strategy: the i2010 programme. The project involved trend analysis, econometric modelling, desk research, interviews, a survey, scenario development and gaming.

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  • Copyright: European Commission
  • Publisher: RAND Corporation
  • Availability: Web-Only
  • Year: 2009
  • Pages: 229
  • Document Number: TR-776-EC

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Cave, Jonathan, Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau, Helen Rebecca Schindler, Alaa Shehabi, Philipp-Bastian Brutscher, and Neil Robinson, Trends in connectivity technologies and their socioeconomic impacts: Final report of the study: Policy Options for the Ubiquitous Internet Society, RAND Corporation, TR-776-EC, 2009. As of September 4, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR776.html
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Cave, Jonathan, Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau, Helen Rebecca Schindler, Alaa Shehabi, Philipp-Bastian Brutscher, and Neil Robinson, Trends in connectivity technologies and their socioeconomic impacts: Final report of the study: Policy Options for the Ubiquitous Internet Society. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2009. https://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR776.html.
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