According to a report and article by the Boston Consulting Group, G20 countries will see the value of the web economy rapidly grow in the next few years. Currently, the web economy is valued roughly at $2.3 trillion. By 2016, the value of the web economy is predicted to grow to 4.2 trillion–nearly doubling from what it is today.
One of the driving factors for this rapid growth will be that by 2016, nearly half of the world will be web users. The growth of web users will be 1.9 billion in 2010 to a projected 3 billion web users in 2016.
The rise of the emerging markets, the popularity of mobile devices, especially smart phones, and the growth of social media are also compounding the economic impact of the Internet. Boston Consulting Group, Davos, Switzerland, January 27, 2012
In the next five years, businesses will be fundamentally transformed by the Internet, and it’s growth will be global and pervasive.



The UK Government will not exempt libraries, businesses such as cafes or bookstores, museums, or even universities from it’s copyright enforcement policy. Open wifi networks will be a thing of the past now that the UK Government will hold the owners of open networks responsible for violations in copyright laws committed from within it’s network. 