《Report on World Internet Development 2017》Overview.pdf

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1、1 Report on World Internet Development 2017 Overview The Internet, as an important achievement of the development of the worlds civilization, is becoming an important drive for innovative development and social progress, benefiting the whole humankind. This report, with reference to the existing res

2、earch results from both China and other countries, tries to establish the Global Internet Development Index to make a comprehensive assessment and quantitative assessment of the Internet development of major countries, so that it can be used as a reference for all countries in promoting their Intern

3、et development. Generally speaking, the explosive growth of the global mobile Internet is coming to an end and the worlds Internet connection scale growth is entering a power conversion period. The Internet development is seeing a transfer from “person-to-person connection” to “connection of all thi

4、ngs”. Rising network information technologies like artificial intelligence have become the new highlands; and digital economy, the new power for all countries economic growth. Cyberspace has become the new area of the global governance system revolution; smart society, the new social formation of pe

5、oples production and life; and the Internet, the common home connecting you and me. All countries and the international community should take the wellbeing of humankind as the fundamental consideration and adhere to the philosophy of built, shared and governed by all. We should make the global Inter

6、net governance system more equitable and reasonable, and work together to build a community of shared future in cyberspace featured equality, respect, innovative development, openness, sharing spirit, security and order. 2 I. General Situation of the World Internet Development In todays world, the I

7、nformation Technology Revolution represented by the Internet is still in progress. It has become the locomotive of innovation-driven development, fundamentally changing peoples life and work and pushing the society forward. By June 2017, the total number of Internet users worldwide had reached 3.89

8、billion, with a coverage rate of 51.7%1. Almost all major countries are speeding up informatization and reaping digital bonus to cope with the sluggish growth in the post-financial crisis era, to realize inclusive and sustainable growth and to enhance their international competitiveness. In the Inte

9、rnet sector, they will accelerate infrastructure deployment, foster innovation capacity, promote the development of the industry, tap the potential of its applications, spare no effort to safeguard cyber security, and direct the global governance system towards a more just and equitable future. (I)

10、Globalization has entered the new era of being driven by data, and the Internet sector is now the strategic focus and development priority across the world. At present, as the world is undergoing re-balance of power and readjustments, globalization is at a new turning point: it was driven first by i

11、nternational trade in version 1.0 and later by international finance in version 2.0, and now it is driven by data in its latest updated version 3.0. Major economies in the world are riding the new tides of information technology revolution and accelerating the development and use of the Internet to

12、promote their own economic and social development and maintain or enhance their overall strength and international competitiveness. At present, 100 countries and regions have promulgated or updated national strategies for cyber security or informatization. For instance, the United States is stepping

13、 up its efforts to deploy next-generation network facilities, big data, advanced manufacturing and artificial intelligence to consolidate its technological and industrial leadership; the EU is trying to remove the digital trade barriers among its member states and accelerate 1 Data source: . 3 the f

14、ormation of a unified digital market; Germany has adopted Industry 4.0 as a national strategy to consolidate its status as an industrial power; Russia has issued the Roadmap for the Development of Information Technology Industry to enhance its overall advantages in its information industry; India is

15、 promoting the building of a digital India by speeding up its development of optical network, software and cyber security; China is trying to build itself into an Internet power by promoting the integration of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and real economy and enhancing its economi

16、c innovation capacity and competitiveness. Both emerging and developing countries are seeking to go digital and strengthen their competitiveness by developing the Internet. (II) The energization level of the Internet is producing increasing influence and informatization has become the great engine o

17、f economic development and social progress. At present, the energization level of the Internet is playing an increasingly important role in driving and leading economic and social development. It is embodied in four “new things”, namely, new production elements, new infrastructure, new economy and n

18、ew governance. First, data as a new production element are playing an obvious role and the opening up, sharing and application of data can help to optimize the allocation and use efficiency of traditional elements and thus to improve the total factor productivity of resources, capital and talents. I

19、n his book Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth, and Violence at the Edge of the 21st Century, Alvin Toffler, a futurist, points out, “The world has bid farewell to the era dominated by violence and money, and the magic of the worlds future politics will be in the hand of information as power.” The more da

20、ta are developed, the more valuable they are. It is estimated by 2019, the global data flow will have increased by 66 times in comparison with that in 2005. Secondly, the Internet has become the new infrastructure in economic and social development. From 2013 to 2017, there has been an increase of 1

21、96Tbps in the bandwidth of the Internet, and now the bandwidth is 295Tbps, with an annual increase of 30 percent2. A research by the World Bank 2 Data source: Telegeography. 4 shows that every 10-percent increase in the broadband popularity can help the GDP to increase by 1.38%. The Internet is beco

22、ming the kind of infrastructure like water and electricity. It is the “main artery” of economic and social development. The energization efficiency of “Internet+” is emerging and intelligent medical care, transportation and education are thriving. Thirdly, to develop digital economy has become the c

23、ommon option of major countries and regions in enhancing their global competitiveness.G20releasedtheG20DigitalEconomyDevelopmentand Cooperation Initiative at the Hangzhou Summit 2016, which is a centralized demonstration of the consensus of all participating countries on knowing and developing digit

24、al economy. Research shows that 22 percent of GDP of the world is closely related to digital economy covering techniques and capital. The application of digital techniques and technologies will help the worlds economy to witness an added value of two trillion US dollars by 2020, and half of the incr

25、ement of the total global economic gross will come from digital economy by 20253. Fourthly, information promotes the modernization of the national governance system and governance capability. With the increase of the technical level of infrastructure, computer, Internet, and program development soft

26、ware and hardware, e-government is witnessing the shift from electronic stage to network, data and intelligence stages. A survey made by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs shows that from 2003 to 2016, all countries were promoting e-government construction, and the e-government index r

27、ose from 0.402 in 2003 to 0.4922 in 2016, with an annual steady increase of about 1.6 percent. Developed countries from Europe and America are building the “online government” to boost delayering, precise and standard national governance. Emerging countries in the Asian and Pacific Region are also p

28、romoting modernization of government through informatization and have made great achievements. (III) The revolution of information technologies represented by the Internet is progressing and new technologies like artificial intelligence are the new height of global innovation. Information technologi

29、es are the area with the most intensive 3Accenture: Digital Disruption: The Growth Multiplier. 5 R financial sectors like Japanese banking; energy sectors like Ukrainian Grid, Israeli Electricity Authority and German nuclear power stations; medical and health sectors like Australian Ministry of Heal

30、th, American medical care institutions; hydraulic sectors like the server of American Hydro and sewage treatment plants; and transportation sectors like the Utah Airport Website. Besides, because some countries keep improving their cyber military strength, there seem to be cyber wars coming. The Uni

31、ted States set up its cyberspace command in 2009, and announced in August 2017 that this command would be upgraded to be the highest-level United Combatant Commands and the country is planning to build 133 8 cyber armies with synthetic battle capability before 2018, including 40 attacking ones. It i

32、s also developing cyber weapons, for instance, wireless intrusion, that can break physically insulated measures. Military or economic powers like Germany, Israel, Republic of Korea and Japan have all channeled cyberspace into their military security area. Their cyberspace military transformation is

33、inevitable since they are setting up cyber armies to develop their capacity of cyber military fighting. (VI) Global cyberspace governance has entered the multilateral and multi-party governance stage. The governments of all countries are more and more dominant in the cyberspace governance. Four spec

34、ial agencies and mechanisms like the UN group of governmental experts on cyber security and its framework and regionalmultilateralorganizationsrepresentedbyEconomicCooperation Organization (ECO) and APEC, and bilateral dialogues between China and the US, China and Russia, and the US and Russia provi

35、de the basic framework for the inter-governmental cooperation in global cyberspace governance. The voice advocating the cyberspace sovereignty principle and multilateralism becomes louder, forming the situation that can contend with multi-stakeholders, and there have been substantial results in ICAN

36、N mechanism reform. There is also rising voice for surpassing the confrontation between two patterns and seeking for inclusive solutions. Traditional and emerging powers and inter-governmental organizations like the UN, Internet communities and relevant research institutions are promoting the formul

37、ation of rules on global cyberspace. Great progress has been made in the formulation of basic principles on global cyberspace governance, and Internet technical standards and norms, as well as in cyber crime punishment and digital economy development. II. Status Quo of Some Major CountriesInternet D

38、evelopment This section, centering on the Global Internet Development Index that includes six dimensions (infrastructure, innovation capacity, industry development, Internet 9 application, cyber security and Internet governance), through synthesized and quantified assessments, provides a comprehensi

39、ve, scientific and objective analysis of the status quo of the Internet development in some major countries and the overall trend of the worlds Internet development. (I) Main considerations of the Global Internet Development Index System 1.TheGlobalInternetDevelopmentIndexisthespecification, standar

40、dization and indexation of President Xi Jinpings thought on global Internet governance. In the past few years, Chinese President Xi Jinping elaborated on global Internet governance ideas on several important international occasions. In his keynote speech delivered at the opening ceremony of the Seco

41、nd World Internet Conference, he put forward four principles for the transformation of global Internet governance system(The fourprinciplesare: respectfor cybersovereignty, maintenance of peace and security, promotion of openness and cooperation, and cultivation of good order) and five proposals on

42、building a community of shared future in cyberspace (First, speed up the building of global Internet infrastructure and promote inter-connectivity. Second, build an online platform for cultural exchange and mutual learning. Third, promote innovative development of cyber economy for commonprosperity.

43、Fourth,maintaincybersecurityandpromoteorderly development. Fifth, build an Internet governance system to promote equity and justice.), winning wide applaud and recognition from the international community. These proposals were lauded as Chinas intelligent contribution to global Internet governance.T

44、heGlobalInternetDevelopmentIndexisthespecification, standardization and indexation of President Xi Jinpings thought on global Internet governance, aiming to provide quantifiable, referable and comparable data and evidence for countries to assess their own status quo of their Internet development so

45、that they can make good plans and take corresponding measures. 2. As an assessment of the overall status of the Internet development across the world is missing, the Internet Development Index will fill this gap. The 10 attempts to assess Internet development level are long-standing; the United Nati

46、ons, the International Telecommunication Union and the World Economic Forum have all made such attempts: the Global E-Government Development Index, the Global ICT Development Index, and the Networked Readiness Index have gradually been accepted by the international community. They have helped countr

47、ies to know about their current status of Internet development, the stage they are in and their strengths and weaknesses in that aspect. These indices, however, are mostly special ones to measure such specific dimensions as informatization or cyber security. They fail to reflect the big picture and

48、the overall trend of Internet development across the world. The Global Internet Development Index System contains 6 first-level indicators, 12 second-level ones and 32 third-level ones, concerning six dimensions, namely, infrastructure, innovation capacity, industry development, Internet application

49、, cyber security and Internet governance. They are adopted to comprehensively analyze the development of the Internet in various countries. It will help countries learn from each other and make progress together to promote the development of the Internet in their regions and benefit the people and the society at large. 3. The Global Internet Development Index involves both per capita and aggregate indicators of Internet development level and thus provides a more comprehensive, accurate and scientific system for assessment. To assess the Internet development of a country, per capita indi