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The internet is changing the way we live, work, produce and consume. With such extensive reach, digital technologies cannot help but disrupt many

of our existing models of business and government.

As we enter the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, a technological transformation driven by the internet, the challenge is to manage this seismic

change in a way that promotes the long-term health and stability of the internet.

At the heart of the internet is data –massive amounts of it. Volumes of data are growing at a rate of 40% per year and will increase 50 times by 2020.

A measure of the speed of growth is the estimate from Singapore-based Aureus Analytics that 90% of all data in the world was created in the last two

years.

As mobile usage goes up, so do personal data volumes. Over half (51%) of all internet users worldwide are in Asia: China has 1.3 billion mobile

subscriptions out of a population of 1.36 billion, while India has 0.91 billion mobile subscriptions out of a 1.25 billion population.