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ICT4D - Where Are We Heading?
!Chris Locke
Founder, Caribou Digital
Caribou DigitalBuilding Emerging Market Digital Economies
Technology is…1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal; !
2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it; !
3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.
Device prices keep crashing
Shipments Forecast per Smartphone Price category
(Million Units, 2012-2016)
283270272238162
268
2015
219
211
227
2014
221
194
29
2016
209
225
162
2013
226
197
88
2012
241
192
Premium (>US$300)
High (US$191-299)
Mid (US$100-190)
Entry (US$36-99)
27%
% of total shipments (2015)
29%
23%
21%
Global smartphone average selling price
$184
$134$156
2012
$214
2010
$290
$329
2011
-14%
2014 2015 20162013
$249
But internet access pricing isn’t
With inevitable results
No access = no participation
Increasing number of new access technologies
Increasing innovation in access devices
219 Mobile Money services in 84 countries and over 200m
active users
Driving innovation and economic development
What Next?
