The “sharing economy” movement is maturing and citizens and corporations alike have accepted that popular business models like Uber and Airbnb seem here to stay. This has caused the traditional industries with vested interests in these markets to make adjustments to their own business models and competition strategies with the sharing economy in mind. This had often resulted in the margins in the initial stages of the sharing economy to have either shrunk or stayed the same.

1. THE SHARING AND NETWORKING ECONOMY

1.1 The maturing of the sharing economy

1.2 Robots vs the sharing economy

1.3 Computer transactions, not people, are driving the need for all-fibre networks

1.4 Collaborative consumption

1.4.1 Opportunities

1.4.2 Inhibitors

1.5 Sharing economy published statistics

1.5.1 Space rental and ride-sharing set to drive sharing economy

1.6 Examples of sharing economy services

1.6.1 Concierge services

1.6.2 Vacant parking spaces on the internet

1.6.3 YouTube for authors

1.6.4 Currency Exchange

1.7 Transport a key area for the sharing economy

1.8 Crowdsourced WiFi, homespots

1.8.1 Community WiFi around the world

2. GLOBAL E-COMMERCE, E-PAYMENTS AND M-COMMERCE TRENDS

2.1 Global e-commerce market

2.1.1 Underlying trends

2.1.2 The digital commerce evolution

2.2 Market leaders

2.3 E-payments

2.4 Building on the Bitcoin platform

2.4.1 Bitcoin

2.4.2 Blockchain and smart contracts

2.5 Key e-commerce trends

2.5.1 Omni-channel retailing

2.5.2 Carrier billing for emerging markets

2.5.3 Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)

2.5.4 Cloud computing and e-commerce

2.5.5 Security concerns

2.6 Global e-commerce market statistics

2.7 Global m-commerce market

2.7.1 Market analysis

2.7.2 M-payments

2.7.2.1 NFC and M-Wallets

2.7.2.2 Cloud-based mobile NFC payments

2.7.2.3 Mobile payments apps

2.7.3 Key m-commerce trends

2.7.3.1 Mobile auctions

2.7.3.2 Mobile location shopping and marketing

2.7.3.3 Mobile vouchers, coupons and loyalty cards

2.7.3.4 Indoor Location Based Service

2.7.4 Global m-commerce market statistics

2.8 Internet banking (E-banking and m-banking)

2.8.1 The changing face of e-banking

2.8.2 Banks under e-pressure

2.8.3 M-banking

2.8.3.1 Mobile ID for Mobile banking

2.8.3.2 Mobile money transfer services

Global Digital and Sharing Economy - The E-commerce and M-commerce Transformation

2.8.3.3 The effect of m-banking on brick-and-mortar branches

2.8.4 Mobile advertising

3. GLOBAL E-EDUCATION AND E-GOVERMENT TRENDS

3.1 E-education

3.1.1 E-education statistics

3.1.2 Self-Paced E-Learning (SPEL)

3.1.3 Learning Management Systems (LMSs)

3.1.4 Corporate e-learning

3.2 Will STEM and flipped classrooms lead the e-education transformation?

3.3 Education system will hit economic crisis point

3.3.1 Education is not keeping up with social changes

3.3.2 Economic costs will force the system to change

3.3.3 Governments will be forced to stop costs spiralling out of control

3.3.4 Medieval education system hard to reform

3.4 What is happening with e-education?

3.4.1 Education transformation will guide e-learning

3.4.2 Internet media companies moving the sector forward

3.4.3 Self-learning in developing economies

3.4.4 Gamification

3.4.5 Schools as platforms for individual learning

3.5 Tele-education – the quiet achiever

3.6 E-education: part of smart, trans-sector community

3.6.1 Mobile learning

3.6.2 Cloud computing and e-education

3.6.3 Tele-presence and e-education

3.6.4 Skype in the classroom

3.6.5 Off-net video in the medical field

3.6.6 E-learning and Open Source

3.6.7 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

3.6.8 Virtual worlds for education

3.6.9 Crowdsourcing

3.7 Digital education approaching reality

3.8 E-government

3.8.1 Governments under pressure

3.8.2 Governments are a key driver to the digital economy

3.8.3 E-government leaders

4. GLOBAL E-HEALTH TRENDS

4.1 Healthcare – next sector on the block for e-transformation

4.1.1 P4 Medicine

4.2 E-health

4.3 The disruptive e-healthcare market has arrived!

4.4 Healthcare is a massive global industry

4.4.1 Healthcare spending statistics

4.4.2 E-health statistics

4.5 Integrated care and medicine

4.5.1 Patient must remain central

4.5.2 How to stimulate growth of e-health

4.5.3 Videoconferencing in healthcare

4.6 Key market directions

4.6.1 Broadband essential to maintain public health system

4.6.2 Internet already a popular source for health information

4.6.4 M2M and IT also key to sustainable healthcare

4.6.5 Cloud computing and healthcare

4.6.6 Big Data use in medical science

4.6.7 Apple, Google, IBM and healthcare

4.6.7.1 IBM Watson helps address healthcare challenges

4.7 Healthcare analysis – ‘no outcome, no income’

4.8 M-Health

4.8.1 Smartphones are pushing mobile health

4.8.2 Wearable wireless devices and healthcare

4.9 Remote patient monitoring

4.9.1 Remote patient monitoring devices

4.9.2 Connected medical devices

4.10 Privacy and security a key concern

4.10.1 Quality of service needs to be considered

4.10.2 Accountability and transparency

5. GLOBAL ONLINE AND MOBILE ADVERTISING TRENDS

5.1 Market summary

5.1.1 Changes in digital advertising

5.1.2 Digital marketing key statistics

5.2 Key online advertising categories

5.2.1 In-game advertising

5.2.2 Social network advertising

5.2.3 Online video advertising

5.2.4 Search engine advertising

5.3 Mobile advertising

5.3.1 Advertising on mobile apps

5.3.2 Mobile Location-Based Advertising (Geo-marketing)

5.4 Market trends

5.4.1 TV and smart TV advertising

5.4.2 Digital ad exchanges

5.4.3 Click fraud

5.4.4 Multi-screen approach gains attention

5.5 Internet media companies – Google versus facebook

5.6 The effect of big data on the advertising industry

5.6.1 Online advertising does not improve the overall result for advertisers