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The Global Information Technology Report 2013
Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World
Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Soumitra Dutta, and Bruno Lanvin, Editors

Insight Report

The Global Information Technology Report 2013
Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World

Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, World Economic Forum Soumitra Dutta, Cornell University Bruno Lanvin, INSEAD Editors

@ 2013 World Economic Forum

The Global Information Technology Report 2013 is a project within the framework of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness and Benchmarking Network and the Industry Partnership Programme for Information and Communication Technologies. It is the result of a collaboration between the World Economic Forum and INSEAD. Professor Klaus Schwab Executive Chairman Børge Brende Managing Director, Government Relations and Constituents Engagement Robert Greenhill Managing Director, Chief Business Officer

World Economic Forum Geneva Copyright © 2013 by the World Economic Forum and INSEAD All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise without the prior permission of the World Economic Forum. ISBN-10: 92-95044-77-0 ISBN-13: 978-92-95044-77-7 This report is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Printed and bound in Switzerland by SRO-Kundig. Visit The Global Information Technology Report page at www.weforum.org/gitr.

EDITORS

Beñat Bilbao-Osorio, Associate Director and Senior Economist, Global Competitiveness and Benchmarking Network, World Economic Forum Soumitra Dutta, Dean, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University Bruno Lanvin, Executive Director, eLab, INSEAD

We thank Hope Steele for her excellent editing work and Neil Weinberg for his superb graphic design and layout. The terms country and nation as used in this report do not



References: Cáceres. R. B. 2011. Uso de las Fondos de Acceso Universal de Telecomunicaciones en Países de América Latina y el Caribe. Santiago de Chile: UNECLAC.

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