The t dynamic of region of a world that i can see right now. Thank you. You are modest in touting your commitment to increase another 5 billion of investment in africa. I want to thank you and applaud cocacolas leadership and the newhip with alliance for feud Food Security and nutrition. That is an effort many in this room have joined the United States and some of our partners internationally in supporting. Bringing opportunity and Food Security to people all over the continent, in particular to women and women farmers. Itight turn to you would be helpful for all of us to understand ibms experience and africa. Tell us about the environment you found, the opportunities you found. In particular, the innovation you have brought to the concept of smart cities in africa. Here, veryryone optimistic, not only about the present, but the future. We have had much discussion about the infrastructure and things like oil and gas. Of equal importance is the digital infrastructure. I challenge everyo
The communicators is on location. This week well look at some of the new technologies coming out from ces international and talk to policymakers as well. This is the communicators on cspan from las vegas. Well now we want to introduce you to Ulf Ewaldsson with the Erickson Corporation Senior Vice President group chief Technology Officer. Mr. E waldson, before we get into what you do, just want to make the statement that erickson is not the Consumer Product corporation that it was a few years ago is that a fair statement . Guest absolutely. We are not in consumer at all. But being here at the Consumer Electronics show in las vegas you can really see how relevant networks, which we are doing, are becoming to just basically, every Consumer Product out here. Host for a while people owned erickson phones. Do you even manufacture them anymore . Guest no, we dont. Host so a more of a business to business type . Guest we are the Global Leader in infrastructure for networks where we provide bot
It is a complex answer. Let me try to explain. 5g is more than just another network. It is an even nation an evolution of 4g into a network that is much more responsive, much faster, built for machine type communication. In ericsson, we talk about a Network Society. And the Network Society is a society where everything that can benefit from having a connection will actually have one. We put a Vision Forward in 2009 in barcelona in the trade show going on there of the 50 billion connected devices in 2020, which has caught on very well in the world. And that, i think, open to many peoples minds that the mobile industry is not limited to the smart phones and devices we carry around personally. It also is a Great Technology to connect so many other things and to be able to build a Better Society based on those kinds of technologies. Host on ericssons homepage there was a post about a connected world is just the beginning. What does that mean . Ewaldsson if i should interpret it. I think th
Is that a fair statement . Absolutely. We are not the Consumer Product at all. But being here at the consumer electronic show in las vegas you can see how Relevant Networks which we are doing, is becomes important to every Consumer Product that wants to be connect connected. For a while people owned ericsson phones. But do you manufacture phones . No we dont. It is more businesstobusiness . What we do is we are the Global Leader for infrastructure for networks and provide infrastructure and Telecom Services and services for operators. So that is the business we are in basically. What is ericsson demonstrating here . What are they putting on the floor . First of all the main message for us is to make sure everyone who is out there is showing the different project and Consumer Device and things they have build that want to be connected and benefit from being connected over very good networks. Of course we are showing l g products andilate es latest and Great Depression est systems why ar
Our mistakes, to our weaknesses. And own up to our solutions and contributing to our solutions. So that we can even tell our story. You find we even depend on others to tell our story. So thats how destruction has come about. So i really think theres not much time to waste as time goes with africa, in terms of building this consensus, this working together, this owning up so that we cooperate and partner with others rather than being too dependent on them. So this is an opportunity we have to leverage this partnership and to address that particular problem. Thank you very much indeed. Firstly, i would like to agree with my brothers that lets take ebola as a disease that is affecting humanity. Rather than just to look at it as an african problem. Fortunately, i said earlier africa is organizing itself. Even the Health Organizations continentally are working together. Thats why were confident that this time around, we are working together to address this problem of ebola. But i must also