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Ekaterina Yanovskaya

Cities of the Future | INSEAD Knowledge - 0 views

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      You think about the middle class in China, the middle class in India and you think about their consumption power, it is explosive," says Van Wassenhove. "It's good that these people get out of poverty but the constraints they're going to put on resources are just enormous. Sustainability is no longer a luxury; it is something that business will have to deal with
  • Singapore had the foresight to realise very early that they didn’t have resources. They didn’t have water, they didn’t have energy. So they were forced from the start to include sustainability in their thinking. They understood that economic sustainability for them was tightly linked to environmental sustainability
  • The infamous traffic in Indonesia’s capital city, Jakarta, led to the first phase of a Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) rail system to alleviate the strain on roads, to be announced this year
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  • Mumbai built the now-famous “Sealink” bridge to divert traffic away from the gridlock of the city and along its coast
  • There’s still the issue to develop a longer-term plan rather than chaotic management of cities. There may still be the issue of resources, where are the resources going to come from? Maybe companies can help by helping to create business which would generate economic resources.”
  • Globalisation has meant urbanisation, and by 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will be living in cities. What should we do to survive and thrive in this brave new world?
  • You cannot attract highly educated people and become a knowledge centre if you have a lousy environment
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

What is the future for Russia's economy? | Forum:Blog Forum:Blog | The World Economic F... - 0 views

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economy Political

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  • Russia’s economy is at a turning point. Following a decade of spectacular growth fueled by high energy prices, the country could either use its newfound riches to finance much-needed modernization and become a driver of innovation and growth, or muddle through by continuing to rely on its large yet maturing hydrocarbon base.
  • Ranking the importance of different drivers for Russia’s economic development in terms of impact and uncertainty over the way in which they may evolve over time, the group highlighted oil and gas prices as well as economic diversification and competition as critical uncertainties (see exhibit).
Olga Bykova

Supporters | Happy Planet Index - 0 views

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happiness index economic GDP

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  • Olga Bykova on 06 Aug 14
     
    Everyone accepts that GDP alone cannot tell us anything of substance about how we are doing as a species. It tells us nothing of the state of our planet, or the wellbeing of its people. It is simply an indiscriminate measurement of economic activity. The Happy Planet Index is a step towards developing alternatives.
Anton Vorykhalov

bcg.perspectives - What's Ahead for Car Sharing? - 0 views

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SharingEconomy ConnectedCars

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  • When Car Sharing Makes Sense
  • Anton Vorykhalov on 24 Feb 16
     
    Economic analysys of efficiency of car sharing based on different usage profiles
Maria Gurova

These are the top-earning YouTube stars of 2015 according to Forbes | The Verge - 1 views

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Technology Economy entertainment youtube Future of entertainment Digital Celebrity Generation Y UGC new sources of characters bottom-up storytelling customisation Market adjustable entertainment entrepreneurship maker movement short-form content

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  • The financial magazine has published its first ever list of top earners on the video platform, with the irrepressible Felix Kjellberg (better known as PewDiePie) heading the charts with pretax earnings of $12 million,
  • most of these individuals’ income comes from advertising such as sponsored videos and previews, although four of those on the list also have book deals, while a few even offer their own product lines.
  • Maria Gurova on 15 Oct 15
     
    The fact that Forbes made an official ranking of income of the YouTube celebrities is an indication that this is an actual economic driver. The numbers might not be accurate at this point of time, as there's no infrastructure to track income individuals' receive through this type of monetisation, but this is only a matter of time  
zolotarev

Netflix isn't killing movie theaters: Viewers who stream more also go to cinemas more - 1 views

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    According to a study by EY's Quantitative Economics and Statistics group, the people who go to see movies in theaters more frequently are also the people who consume more streaming content.
anna_nelidova

Amazon challenges YouTube by offering uploaders a cut of the ads | The Verge - 1 views

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Amazon UGC Video Direct Service Digital Clash of titans Economic

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  • Amazon is launching its new Amazon Video Direct service today to let video creators share any content and receive a cut of the revenue.
  • Amazon is offering a variety of ways for creators to earn money, including royalties through streaming by Prime members, and revenue sharing through rentals, purchases, subscriptions, and ad impressions.
  • Amazon has a variety of launch partners, including How Stuff Works, Mattel, The Guardian, and independent titles from Samuel Goldwyn Films.
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  • Amazon Video is still limited by its availability worldwide and how exactly it expands partners in the future.
  • Amazon Video is still only available in the US, Germany, Austria, UK, and Japan.
anna_nelidova

Mail.Ru Group создал конкурента «Кинопоиску» | Реклама Маркетинг PR - SOSTAV.RU - 1 views

www.sostav.ru/...nkurenta-kinopoisku-21857.html

online theatres aggregator Economic New Digital platform Theatrical metasearch

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  • Компания Mail.Ru Group превратила агрегатор онлайн-кинотеатров Афиша Mail.Ru в Кино Mail.Ru, запустив новый плеер, позволяющий пользователям выбирать поставщика фильма или сериала
  • проект агрегирует бесплатный и платный видеоконтент от таких онлайн-кинотеатров, как ivi, Megogo, Amediateka и Okko, TVzavr, Tvigle, Zoomby, Now, Rutube, Videomore и Pladform (включая контент телеканалов ТНТ, СТС, НТВ и Первый).
  • для каждого конкретного фильма, сериала и телешоу пользователь сможет увидеть все онлайн-кинотеатры, в которых они представлены, а если видео представлено по платной модели, то можно будет сравнить цены.
Maria Gurova

Driverless cars, pilotless planes … will there be jobs left for a human being... - 3 views

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robotics Technology Social KE CIS employment expertise jobs big data wicked issues wellbeing

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  • From staff-free ticket offices to students who can learn online, it seems there is no corner of economic life in which people are not being replaced by machines.
  • One of the reasons Google is investing so much is that whoever owns the communications system for driverless cars will own the 21st century's equivalent of the telephone network or money clearing system: this will be a licence to print money.
  • The only new jobs will be in the design and marketing of the cars, and in writing the computer software that will allow them to navigate their journeys, along with the apps for our mobile phones that will help us to use them better
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  • The invention of 3D printing, in which every home or office will be equipped with an in-house printer that can spew out the goods we want – from shoes to pills – anticipates a world of what Summers calls automated "doers". They will do everything for us, eliminating the need for much work.
  • we have come to the end of the great "general purpose technologies" (technologies that transform an entire economy, such as the steam engine, electricity, the car and so on) that changed the world. There are no new transformative technologies to carry us forward, while the old activities are being robotised and automated.
  • The second is in human wellbeing. There will be vast growth in advising, coaching, caring, mentoring, doctoring, nursing, teaching and generally enhancing capabilities.
  • Notwithstanding robotisation and automation, I identify four broad areas in which there will be vast job opportunities.The first is in micro-production
  • The third is in addressing the globe's "wicked issues" . There will be new forms of nutrition and carbon-efficient energy, along with economising with water, to meet the demands of a world population of 9 billion in 2050.
  • And fourthly, digital and big data management will foster whole new industries
  • the truth is, nobody knows. What we do know is that two-thirds of what we consume today was not invented 25 years ago. It will be the same again in a generation's time
  • Maria Gurova on 13 Jun 13
     
    demand for the new expertise may impact not only the school and academic education, but earlier development stages
alexbelov

The 10 skills you need to thrive in the Fourth Industrial Revolution | World Economic F... - 0 views

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  • By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology and genomics. These developments will transform the way we live, and the way we work. Some jobs will disappear, others will grow and jobs that don’t even exist today will become commonplace. What is certain is that the future workforce will need to align its skillset to keep pace.
  • Creativity will become one of the top three skills workers will need.
  • negotiation and flexibility are high on the list of skills
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  • Those working in sales and manufacturing will need new skills, such as technological literacy.
  • alexbelov on 17 Mar 16
     
    Technological change sets new requrements to people as some occupaitons become obsolete and others emerge. Tops skills in the next 5 years are: complex problem solving, critical thinking, creativity, people management, coordinating with others, emotional intelligence, judgement and decision making, service orientation, negotiation, cognitive flexibility.
anna_nelidova

ВЕДОМОСТИ - Продажи музыки выросли впервые за 20 лет - 0 views

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Economic Music streaming services Rise of digital sales Music Industry digital consumption

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  • В 2015 г. продажи музыки выросли на 3,2% до $15 млрд, сообщила Международная федерация звукозаписывающей индустрии (IFPI)
  • Рост рынка обеспечен прежде всего тем, что продажа музыки в цифровом формате приносит теперь больше выручки, чем продажа треков на физических носителях – CD- и DVD-дисках.
  • На цифровые форматы теперь приходится 45% всех продаж, или $6,7 млрд. А в 19 странах мира они занимают уже больше половины рынка. За последние 10 лет онлайн-продажи музыки выросли в 6 раз, а в 2015 г. – на 10,2%.
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  • Быстрее всего среди цифровых форматов растут стриминговые сервисы – их общая выручка выросла на 45,2% до $2,9 млрд.
  • Более $2 млрд из этой суммы заплатили 68 млн подписчиков таких платных сервисов, как Spotify и Apple Music. При этом более 1 млрд пользователей YouTube и других музыкальных сервисов, работающих по рекламной модели, обеспечили лишь около $634 млн дохода.
alexbelov

People Are Still Getting This The Robots Will Steal All Our Jobs Thing Wrong - Forbes - 0 views

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Technology robots economy labour robot-fobia Future of Work self-fulfilment balance

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  • the new technology kills off the old jobs and that allows people to go and do something different
  • We’ve not got to make sure that the new technologies create jobs. Because that’s not what they do. Rather, they free labour to go do something else.
  • It simply isn’t true that the new technologies create jobs. That’s not what leads to us all still having jobs at least. What does happen is that we all go find other things to do. And it’s a basic tenet of economics that human desires and wants are unlimited while the resources we have to sate them are limited and scarce.
Maria Gurova

A New Version Of Monopoly That Isn't About Getting Rich And Bankrupting Your Friends | ... - 0 views

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  • "Unlike Monopoly, the goal of Commonopoly is not the exhaustion, through monopolization, of a virtual stock of goods, but rather the expansion and preservation of a self-propelling sustainable system of recycling, production and distribution," the creators write.
  • Commonopoly, which has recently resurfaced in a couple of places online, demands that players brainstorm alternative economic systems through activities placed around the board.
  • Commonopoly also triggers another recent memory. In 2012, a team of psychologists from the University of California, Berkeley, designed several experiments to measure how wealth impacted unethical behavior.
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  • The results of the other experiments came to the controversial conclusion that those with wealthier backgrounds were more likely to cut off other drivers, lie in negotiating, or cheat.
Ekaterina Yanovskaya

It's no joke - the robots will really take over this time | Technology | The Observer - 1 views

www.theguardian.com/...lace-middle-classes-automatons

Robotics Technology social science

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  • Do we seriously believe that an economic system that supports the massive outsourcing of jobs to low-wage countries would not jump at the opportunity of replacing expensive white-collar employees with robots that cost about $4 an hour to run, never answer back, don't have unions and are never sick or depressed?
  • Ekaterina Yanovskaya on 12 May 14
     
    If capitalism can outsource low-paid jobs, why can't it replace the middle classes with automatons
Anna Dubinina

Bentley подбирает авто по выражению лиц покупателей - 0 views

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CIS Technology Social customization Economic Personification data scanning customisation emotion recognition big data

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  • Anna Dubinina on 28 Oct 15
     
    Bentley Inspirator анализирует эмоции покупателя, которые он испытывает во время специального фильма, а также с помощью камеры следит за мимическими изменениями лица человека. Затем, исходя из результатов, программа предлагает цвет, конфигурацию автомобиля, подходящие именно для данного покупателя.
anna_nelidova

Exclusive: Wal-Mart seeks to test drones for home delivery, pickup | Reuters - 2 views

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Economic Wal-Mart on demand commercial drone use new distribution system home delivery retail logistics transport infrastructure access vs ownership

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  • anna_nelidova on 05 Nov 15
     
    After conducting indoor tests of small unmanned aircraft systems Wal-Mart applied for permission to test drones outdoors for home delivery, curbside pickup and checking warehouse inventories.
anna_nelidova

The World's First Fully Robotic Farm Opens In 2017 | Popular Science - 0 views

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Technology Robots Economic future farmers Human Machine Interaction automated growing future of food Environment sustainability Energy Efficiency Humanisation of Robots Future of Talent Free Time Leisure

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  • A company in Japan is building an indoor lettuce farm that will be completely tended by robots and computers.
  • The company, named Spread, expects the factory to open in 2017, and the fully automated farming process could make the lettuce cheaper and better for the environment.
  • The plants can be grown hydroponically without exhausting soil resources.
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  • Up to 98 percent of Spread’s water will be recycled, and the factory won’t have to spray pesticides
  • Artificial lighting means the food supply won’t rely on weather variables, and the lighting can be supplied through renewable energy.
  • anna_nelidova on 09 Nov 15
     
    A Japanese company plans to open a fully automated farm by 2017 that will be very efficient and not harmful for the environment. They are hoping to increase production and to reduce labor costs and company's prices. 
Vladimir Antonov

China bought nearly half of the world's luxury goods last year - 0 views

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  • Consumers in China spent $116.8 billion on luxury goods abroad in 2015
  • This translates to 46% of the global volume of high-end goods, which includes branded leather goods, cosmetics and electronics, according to consultants at Beijing-based Fortune Character Group, which derived these figures from the revenues of some 20,000 brands.
  • The government says that 120 million Chinese tourists — just about 1% of the population — went overseas in 2015, and contributed to 12% of global spending on their holidays.
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  • Many Chinese buyers are keen to make their high-end purchases overseas because luxury goods imported into China are priced at a premium, in part because of high import tariffs. The China Chamber of International Commerce found last year that high-end goods were priced at up to 68% higher in China compared to prices in the U.S. and Europe.
  • This has resulted in many overseas brands shutting their mainland stores, such as French fashion house Louis Vuitton, which closed stores in Guangzhou, Harbin and Urumqi last year. Other luxury goods brands such as Burberry, Hermes, Armani and Prada also shut outlets in China over the past two years.
  • Some brands remain bullish on China, however. Apple, for one, has been aggressively expanding in the country in the past year, and has set a goal to have 40 stores in Greater China by mid-2016
  • Domestic retail has been growing as an economic driver for the country, as the economy faces its slowest growth rate in two decades. Consumption contributed to 66.4% of GDP in 2015, up 15.4% from 2014.
  • Vladimir Antonov on 15 Feb 16
     
    Asian expansion overseas growth continues, also confirms global vs local trend.
evgeny lavrov

http://www.wired.com/partners/bnymellon/futureofmoney/ - 0 views

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Technology Banking Alternative Currency Economy

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  • M-Pesa’s success has been phenomenal. Recent statistics show that fully one-quarter of the Kenyan economy flows through M-Pesa.
  • Other countries are taking a crack at a similar mobile digital currency. Vodacom
  • has launched M-Pesa in other African nations, as well as India and parts of Eastern Europe. In Latin America, Ecuador recently announced it would launch a nationwide digital currency, residing largely on people’s smartphones
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  • digital currency will bring the same safety and ease of monetary transfer that the M-Pesa has to Kenyans to the roughly 40% of Ecuadoreans who don’t have access to a bank account. Plus, it offers Ecuadoreans the opportunity to start saving
  • What is increasingly evident is that the traditional role of banks is being reimagined by non-banking software and hardware companies
  • Bitcoin will increasingly enter the mainstream and challenge the traditional rails of finance along which money has moved.
  • Goods of all kinds can reach customers in places that just didn’t make financial sense in the past.
  • This leads to the increased competition for all kinds of things, especially for information-based products and services that the United States leans on for much of its economy. Digital currencies, Bitcoin in particular, will lower economic barriers.
  • It might be different kinds of loans, payroll and other small business services and specialized accounts that serve specific needs and populations.
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