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20 November 2014

Towards a Sustainable Connected World

The next disruptive trend arising from ICT technologies will be a societal phase transition as we move to a fully connected world in which a vast number of machines and devices distributed around the planet collect, store, process and exchange information to enhance our daily lives — The Internet of Things. Some central questions need to be addressed to ensure the Internet of Things itself will be sustainable at such a large scale. This event looked at several foundational issues relating to a connected world.