Internet Induces Innovation By DR T H CHOWDARY

Internet Induces Innovation By DR T. H. CHOWDARY Director: Center for Telecom Management and Studies Fellow: Tata Consultancy Services Chairman: Pragna Bharati (intellect India ) Former: Chairman & Managing Director Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited & Information Technology Advisor, Government of Andhra Pradesh T: +91(40) 6667 -1191(O) 2784 -3121® F: +91 (40) 6667 -1111 hanuman. chowdary@tcs. com Talk@ Institution of Engineers: 17 May 2015

The Connected World (1) • Every two days we create as much digital content as we did from the dawn of civilisation until year 2003. That is 5 Exabytes ( i. e 5 followed by 18 zeros) with only 2 bln on the Net at end 2013 out of possible 6 bln people of the world’s 7 + bln people. • 100 hours of You Tube footage uploaded every mnt in Y 2014 ( up from 60 hrs in 2012) • 6 bln hours of video footage watched every month • 23 bln text messages sent every day ( 6 bln in USA alone) thc_ctms S 729_May 2015 2

The Connected World (2) • Connections world-wide to Internet increased from 350 mln in y 2000 to 2 bln by 2013 • Mobiles rose form 750 mln in Y 2000 to 6 bln by 2013 & 6. 5 bln by 2014 for a world population of 7. 5 bln • 250 mln Internet users in India of which 180 mln (72%) are mobiles. Mumbai has 12. 5 mln internet connections. thc_ctms S 729_May 2015 3

Internet of Things (IOT) • Think how much information would flow & be stored when • 6 bn people connect to the Internet. • 70 bln things ( A/Cs, Microwaves, TVs, refrigerators, burgler alarms…etc) connect to the Internet of Things (IOT) • The Internet is the outcome of organizations like DARPA (USA), Tim Berners Lee (CERN) Nicholas Negroponte of MIT, Winton CERF of the IETF and Craig Munde (Internet Security) of Microsoft; John Mc. Afee (anti-virus soft-ware pioneer) and others…. thc_ctms S 729_May 2015 4

Telcos created the Infrastructure of ICTs (1) • P-Telcos have invested about Rs. 4 lakh crores • DOT: got = 3. 5 lakh crores by way of spectrum sales, spectrum usage and revenue shares • 2010& 2015 Spectrum auctions yielded Rs. 1, 10, 000 cr & Rs, 1, 000 cr respectively • P-Telcos: have a debt of = 3, 50, 000 crores • BSNL/MTNL have accumulated losses of about Rs. 40, 000 crores • Telco revenues are over Rs. 3, 000 crores /yr compared to Rlys’ Rs. 1, 45, 000 cr thc_ctms S 729_May 2015 5

Telcos created the Infrastructure (2) • 2015 spectrum auction produced Rs. 1, 10, 000 cr May 2010 Mukesh Jio bought 4 G Spectrum at over Rs. 40, 000 cr 5 yr after, no launch! • 90% of mobile users keep phone, 90% of time within 3 ft thc_ctms S 729_May 2015 6

Broad Band • • • 64 kbp → 1 Mega → 10 M → 1 Giga Increase → 15. 6 15, 600, 000 Km of Optical Fiber cables 600, 000 Cell Towers NOFN @ Rs. 25, 000 cr to connect 250, 000 Panchayat villages thc_ctms S 729_May 2015 7

What the Internet Brought • • • E-Mail Electronic libraries & e-books Electronic Encyclopedia (Wikipedia), print edition Encyclopedia Britannica folded up) E-governance, e-sevas EMRI, e-VAIDYA Internet Universities (eg. Phoenix in Arizona-USA); e- Education & e-Classrooms E-banking; e-reservations E-commerce; e-examinations E-ballots; video conferencing Social networks: Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, Linked… E-Surveillance- GPS “You can run, but you can’t escape” –Ronald Reagan Mobile phones- Multifunctional, supplanting PCs; reduced size, weight & price, increasingly energy efficient and camera, GPS - Mc. Afee episode thc_ctms S 729_May 2015 8

Evil on the Internet • Viswamitra created a heavenly space ( Trisanku) • Internet has created the Cyber space – borderless, ubiquitous, ungoverned • Brought under-surveillance and censorship and blockades by some governments (China, Russia, Iran, S. Arabia, N. Korea…) • Hacking by Hactivists, individuals, vigilantes and governments. • Terrorists, smugglers, drug peddlers, traffickers in humans use it • Whistle blowers – Julian Assange, William Snowden… • Identity Theft/privacy loss • Permanency of Data - Chithra Gupta • Cyber war (China, USA, Israel, Russia, Iran) • Cold war replaced by code war • Security & Defence • It requires more than 10 mln lines of code to build security; yet it is vulnerable. It requires only 125 liens of code to breach the security thc_ctms S 729_May 2015 9

Read the Book • The New Digital Age Reshaping the Future of People Nations & Business By Eric Schmidt: Executive Chairman Google Jared Cohen, Director Google Ideas thc_ctms S 729_May 2015 10

Dhanyawad: Thank You thc_ctms S 729_May 2015 11