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The key issue for global economic recovery will be the inevitable shift of production, on a far bigger scale than before, away from the Western hemisphere, and the challenge that this will present for creative thinking and innovation. The key point of departure is the conviction that all industries will have to be creative in order to survive (‘reinventing themselves’) and that the road to recovery will be digital in every possible respect, leading to new and, in many cases, as yet unknown new business models and technologies such as Web 3.0. Based on experience with the Internet so far, we can be sure that this will be disruptive in nature, and challenging to incumbents. 

The fast rise of emerging or already emerged new economies is already a fact, together with third world innovation now already visible. The Creative Track of the WCIT 2010 wants to focus on talent and creativity to meet the...

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The Finance Track holds an important position in WCIT 2010 in many respects and was specially added to the program fairly recently.

The Finance Special will show how new client needs and the dynamics of business and technology are eminent in this sector. It will demonstrate how technology can really be a differentiator when implementing business innovations. In the coming years, globalization, regulatory changes and social networks will lead to new market entrants, new business models and new methods of customer interaction.

The most important challenge for the financial sector in 2010 is to regain the trust of its customers. For clients, it should be obvious that they can rely on to-the-point, transparent products/services, that they will be offered professional and concerned advice and that complaints will be handled adequately. Customers should be confident that their money is safely placed and that...

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The challenge of eHealth is to contribute to good health care. Using eHealth is necessary to keep good quality health care affordable and accessible in the future. An increasingly ageing society and advances in medical technology will intensify pressure on labour market for care providers.

In the face of these problems, countries all over the world have embraced health IT as a critical component of health care reform and innovation strategies. Nevertheless, it is difficult to implement the right IT solutions in health care because not only technical interventions, but also cultural changes are needed in the organization of the care process. The impact of  health IT on citizens will be massive: a breakthrough will occur in the organization of health care, in which the central position of patients within the care process will be essential. This is the key to delivering high quality health care, improving patient...

Introduction
Smart Mobility stands for innovative and much-needed alternative mobility solutions. More people will live in less space and, as a result, increasing traffic congestion will affect the free movement of goods and people. No wonder that Smart Mobility will be one of the most important topics to be discussed at WCIT 2010. The Netherlands has the most crowded rivers, railways and roads in the world, and is already dealing with mobility-related issues that will confront other countries within the next decade. In the 'Living Lab' at WCIT 2010, the Netherlands will introduce IT applications that will enable Smart Mobility.

Supercities and mobility in 2050
Take a leap forward in time to the year 2050. By then, our planet will be inhabited by 9.2 billion people, 70% of them living in cities. Cities like the New York or Paris of 2010 will seem like country towns compared to the supercities that have grown up...

An Introduction to Security & Safety

BALANCE BETWEEN OPPORTUNITY AND THREAT
Historically, all human progress has created both opportunities and threats. New tools, products, technology and even non-physical developments like ideas, organizational structures and methods are initially developed to help the world take a step forward. But unfortunately, every new development also brings new threats: threats because of failure of a system or because of its use by the wrong people. Aircraft, trains and cars are involved in accidents. Tools become weapons.
In the past decade, change has speeded up dramatically. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been the engine behind immense developments, not only technical but also organizational. Globalization not only brings progress and opportunities, but also scales up the threats.
In the right hands, IT can be a powerful tool to prevent danger and to fight threats of all...

Executive Summary
A knowledge economy is necessary to ensure economic growth in the future. However, a knowledge economy cannot exist without an inclusive knowledge society. In line with the general message of the European Commission, the track eInclusion aims to inspire countries, governments, organizations and individuals to stimulate participation in a digitalized society by demonstrating the economic and social advantages of IT and providing ‘best practices’ on how to involve the eXcluded.

Key elements of the track are the film ‘Challenges of Change to an eIncluded society’ and the eReadiness Monitor. The latter provides an overview on how countries around the world perform with regard to eInclusion. In order to help countries to score better in this field, the Netherlands will present the ‘Declaration of Amsterdam’, containing practical tools that countries can use. The Declaration of Amsterdam...

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Vision/themes
Sharing Space, the smart, multiple and sustainable use of space, is enabled by using IT-supported geo-information for regional planning, localisation, positioning and visualisation, and getting connected to other relevant data. This theme is relevant to a world where there is increasingly too little space for too many people, which is causing problems concerning the quality of life, mobility, logistics, nature and safety. Furthermore, this theme is strongly intertwined with the Netherlands, one of the busiest and most cultivated sharing spaces in the world.

The development of IT-supported geo-information is taking place in a more and more progressive way. From collecting, sharing, and disclosing geo-information to linking and combining this information. And - in a subsequent stage - from making geo-information accessible and understandable to monitor and re-calibrate it. As a...

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Across the world, ICT is changing the relationship between society and government. Individual citizens and the businesses and communities to which they belong are becoming more sophisticated in their own use of ICT. Attitudes to information, to the ability to organize complex social interaction, and to truth itself are changing dynamically.

ICT also has a massive impact on both the internal machinery of government and on its ability to serve its constituents in ways which are secure, responsive and focused.

There are plenty of challenges. We are approaching a state of near-ubiquitous access to digital media and this raises public expectations of both central and local government. It also presents a new generation of security concerns with the rise of cybercrime and the risk of breaches of privacy.

As traditional and virtual worlds collide, we observe an environment filled...

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In a world where climate change and CO2 reduction are of a growing importance, it is the innovative capability of IT that can help to solve these problems. Through smart use, IT can help to increase energy efficiency and enable other sectors to reduce their energy consumption. At the same time, because of its intensive energy consumption, the IT sector has to play its part in becoming a green and sustainable sector.

WCIT 2010 will serve as a global platform from which to create awareness and to share knowledge and best practices on the relationship between energy consumption and IT. During a three-day programme, participants will be inspired by looking into the future of energy consumption and the role that IT can play in this. IT-enabled innovations will be shown, including smart grids, electric cars...

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Water stress is a global issue
• Climate change is forcing drought mitigation measures and flood management strategies.
• In many countries infrastructure is aging and failing.
• Agriculture, domestic and industrial sectors are impacted by increasing demand and limited supply.
• Water management domains are often fragmented with conflicting interests of stakeholders.
• Worldwide energy needs drive water needs and vice versa.
• Regulatory frameworks force decisions.
• (Initiatives for) change in the water sector increasingly come from outside the sector, through ‘outside the waterbox thinking’.
• ‘Outside the waterbox thinking’ is needed to improve the process of change. ICT plays a dominant role in this process!

Water is quickly rising on the agendas...