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LATAM11 regional events
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Asia & Oceania16 regional events
EMERGING MARKETS OVERVIEW
By 2030, 87% of the world
population will live in Emerging
Markets
Source: World Bank 2014
By 2020, 80% off all
smartphones will be
located in Emerging Markets
Source: IDC 2014
THE WORLD AS YOU SEE IT
$250 - $1,300
$1,301 - $3,500
GDP per capita
$3,500 - $7,800
$7,801 - $22,000
$22,000 – $117,000
THE WORLD AS WE SEE IT
>80%
60% - 80%
% people with no internet
40% - 60%
<40%
PEOPLE WITHOUT
INTERNET 4.3B
Source: internetlivestats.com
430M new internet users in the next 4 years, only in these 10 countries
Source: internetlivestats.com
Source: www.itu.int
THE SPEED OF INNOVATION
2014 2015
China India
United States China
Japan Indonesia
Brazil South Africa
United Kingdom Brazil
Germany Pakistan
India Nigeria
South Korea Egypt
Russia Vietnam
Italy Bangladesh
Source: World Bank
TOP 10 SMARTPHONE MARKETS FOR GROWTH BY
VALUE
3 GLOBAL TRENDS
LEAPFROGGING
Source: www.e-education.psu.edu
MOBILE PHONE
Source: http://www.gsma.com
MOBILE MONEY
In Kenya, 40% of the
GDP is processed through mobile money
(m-pesa)
Source: www.techweez.com
You can collect payments for goods and services online instantly on your website
SAVING FROM CHINA-LATAM TRANSFERS
Cross border payments: clients can create a profile, verify, and send a local transfer from the comfort of their own home.
Source: www.rocketinternet.com
MOBILE RETAIL
1’200 people per retail outlet
in USAVs
90’000 people per retail outlet
in APAC
E-commerce platform where you can compare product prices.
Solar products affordable to low-income households on a pay-per-use installment plan.
INTERNET PENETRATION
#onlinegaming
#e-commerce
#e-traveling
#onlineadvertising
E-COMMERCE
15Bthe size of the
b2c e-commerce market in
MENA by 2015
Online gaming in LatAm grew 60% between
2012-2014
Mobile/social games studio that creates storytelling in-episodes games, based on the model that made successful TV Shows and Series.
Source: statista.com
E-TRAVELLING
Travel crowdsourcing platform where users can see and book what other people in the network did.
ONLINE ADVERTISING
IN CEE
Source: statista.com
DISRUPTING TECHNOLOGIES
China 35th 29th
Indonesia 100th 87th
Nigeria 123rd 110th
Mexico 79th 66th
Vietnam 76th 71st
Turkey 74th 54th
Source: som.yale.edu
CHANGE IN GLOBAL
INNOVATION RANKING FROM 2012 TO 2014
CHANGE IN GLOBAL
INNOVATION BETWEEN 2012-2014
Zero pollution process that converts wastes into clean petroleum oils and gases.
Indigodrones, is a software that analyzes and processes aerial images and videos data.
The MIDI Jackets: a wearable technology which can reproduces different types of sound based on the body movements.
Hardware device that transforms the sign language into written words and then into sounds.
“People will remember this as the year emerging markets take half of the global GDP.” Zhu Min
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