The Worldbank Knowledge Economy Index ranks Myanmar as second lowest among 157 countries across all key variables relating to ICT, innovation, education as well as economic incentive and institutional regime; Transparency International’s 2013 Corruption Perception Index lists Myanmar in the bottom group of countries, and the most recent Internet World Statisticsreport (2012) shows that internet penetration is around 1%, although with the entry of two international telecom operators,Telenor and Ooredoo,rolling out voice and data services nationwide starting this month, these figures are expected to move up fast. The growth of internet access in Myanmar will predominantly be mobile internet access. 7% of the population use mobile phones; the lowest cost for an Android smartphone (with Myanmar font) is 60-70 USD and a SIM card with data services cost between 5 and 130 USD, depending on the channel through which one gets access to a SIM. Huawei’s smartphones are the market leader at the moment, followed by Samsung.
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NCP 2013 Annual Summary
Dear Friend and Member of New Club of Paris,
Thank you for your great contributions creative initiatives and energizing commitments during 2013. Attached is a pdf with some highlights and photos. (NCP 2013 Annual Summary.PDF)
Now we look forward to another year of NCP progress.
Happy 2014
Leif Edvinsson
Chairman and Co-Founder of New Club of Paris
Year’s end Letter from the General Secretary on his leave from the office
Dear friends and members of the NCP,
As many of us take this period of the year for reflection, contemplation and making new plans with (hopefully) new optimism, I would like to join this move, not giving a long report rather than looking forward to what we have and still may achieve together.
NCP’s Knowledge Region concept discussed at Alpbach in the Austrian Alps
Little known in broader public, but a highlight event amongst insiders are the annual conference series of the European Forum in the most pittoresque village of Alpbach in the Austrian Alps (see http://www.alpbach.org/en/forum-2013/ ).
Digital capital comes before intellectual capital?
News form the consultancy scene: Digital capital comes before intellectual capital?
Finally the ‘traditionalists’ in economy also discover, that more items have to go into GDP and Balance Sheet analysis than only monetary data.
Bloomberg Businessweek reports on Intangible Economy (July 2013)
The Rise of the Intangible Economy: U.S. GDP Counts R&D and Artistic Creation.
– Bloomberg Businessweek, by Peter Coy on July 18, 2013
Baltic conference on May 3: European IP-Framework – Legal and Economic Perspectives
The European IP-Framework in a Knowledge-Based Society: Legal and Economic Perspectives, Tallinn, 3 May 2013
Venue: Great hall of the National Library of Estonia, Tõnismägi 2, 15189 Tallinn
News update and final Information about the NCP meeting in Luxembourg 3-6/2/2013
Dear NCP members,
First of all, although some weeks have already passed, let me join Leif’s and the NCP Board’s greetings and good wishes for the year just begun. We are all optimistic, that our common efforts will help to get NCP growing in its agenda and weight in the discussion of and contribution to the future of knowledge society. Starting the year in this spirit, we also foresee an intense workshop soon run in Luxembourg on February 4th and 5th, plus a public conference adding the day after.
Latest book from NP member José-Maria Viedma at 50% discount to NCP members
Exclusive discount for the New Club of Paris
Latest book from NP member José-Maria Viedma, Barcelona, on Entreprenurial Excellence in the Knowledge Economy at 50% discount.
NCP’s Humboldt Cosmos Multiversity for silver hair knowledge owners
Invitation for participation in Nov. 2012
2nd series of events in the course of NCP’s Humboldt Cosmos Multiversity for silver hair knowledge owners’.
Tenerife, Canary Islands, between Nov. 20th and 30th, 2012