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Delivering Digital Infrastructure: Advancing the Internet Economy

Acknowledgements

The World Economic Forum’s Delivering Digital Infrastructure initiative is a global, multistakeholder effort to ensure digital infrastructure deployments are able to support the promise of the digital economy. The project engaged a multistakeholder community of government, private sector, civil society and academia.

Sincere thanks are extended to the Steering Committee which helped guide the project.

AT&T Steve McGaw Chief Marketing OfficerBaidu.com Jing Wang Vice-President, EngineeringBharti Airtel Manoj Kohli Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, InternationalHuawei Technologies Ken Hu Deputy ChairmanLiberty Global Manuel Kohnstamm Senior Vice-President and Chief Policy OfficerMicrosoft Corporation Jan Mühlfeit Chairman, Microsoft EuropeQualcomm Anand Chandrasekher Senior Vice-President, Business Development, Qualcomm Technologies, IncSalesforce.com J.P. Rangaswami Chief ScientistTelefonica Carlos López Blanco Global Head, Public and Corporate Affairs

Thanks are also extended to the Working Group members for their active participation, collaborative spirit and, most importantly, unique insights.

AT&T Eric Loeb Vice-President, International External AffairsBaidu.com Alex Cheng Vice-President, USABharti Airtel Willie Ellis Director, Products and InnovationBT Garry Miller Head, Group Public PolicyCisco Andy Blackburn Vice-President, Strategic MarketingGoogle Derek Slater Policy AnalystBurda Media Michael Tenbusch Vice-President, Broadcast MediaIndex Ventures Shardul Shah PrincipalLevel 3 Communications Nicolas Pujet Senior Vice-President, Corporate StrategyLiberty Global Michael Bryan-Brown Managing Director, Regulation and Competition PolicyLiberty Global Maurice de Valois Turk Director, Regulatory EconomicsMicrosoft Corporation David Tennenhouse Vice-President, Technology PolicyMicrosoft Corporation Sharon Gillett Principal Strategist, Technology PolicyNetflix Colin Bortner Manager, Government RelationsQualcomm Haleh Partow Vice-President, Technical Marketing, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.Qualcomm Ryan Gorostiza Senior Director, Marketing, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.Salesforce.com Shubber Ali Vice-President, InnovationSpotify Will Page Director of EconomicsTelefonica Pablo Pfost Head of Group Regulatory AffairsTelenor Group Torgeir Hovden Chief Technology Officer, Telenor DigitalTelenor Group Olav Kolbu Chief Technology Officer and Vice-President, Technology, Telenor Digital ServicesTeliaSonera Rune Pedersen Vice-President, Consumer MobilityVimpelCom Hany Bedair Chief Technology Officer, Orascom TelecomVimpelCom Mohamed Hosny Director, Managed Services and Outsourcing, Orascom Telecom

The global dialogue included sessions at the Dead Sea, Jordan; Singapore; Palo Alto, USA; Dalian, People’s Republic of China; Brussels, Belgium; Davos, Switzerland; and Barcelona, Spain. Thanks are extended to all participants at these events who participated in the dialogues.

Finally, additional thanks go to David Kirkpatrick, Chief Executive Officer, Techonomy Media, for moderating dialogues at the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2013 and the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2014.

The Forum is also grateful for the generous commitment and support of The Boston Consulting Group in its capacity as project adviser.

Special thanks are extended to David Dean and John Corwin of The Boston Consulting Group. John Corwin served as the primary author of this report and his tireless efforts are to be commended. We would also like to thank David Duffy for his assistance in the writing of this report.