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Stats Q1 2021
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Last edited: 18 May 2021
| Date Published | Title | Rating | Type | Author | Quick Synopsis | Link | |
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| 2021-02-17 | The UNCTAD B2C E-commerce Index 2020 | Database/List/Ranking | Switzerland replaced the Netherlands at the top of UNCTAD's Business-to-Consumer (B2C) E-commerce Index 2020, which ranks 152 countries on their readiness to engage in online commerce. | https://unctad.org/system/files/official-document/tn_unctad_ict4d17_en.pdf | |||
| 2020-10-23 | Payment Methods Report 2020 | Report | The fifth edition of our annual Payment Methods Report brings out to our readers an extensive overview of what’s new in how people pay in the most relevant ecommerce markets, while focusing on innovation and the latest trends – such as Account-to-Account payments, the upgrades of e-wallets, the rise of super apps, buy now pay later (BNPL) and instalments solutions, click to pay for a new interoperable checkout, and the acceleration of contactless payments driven by the COVID-19 pandemic. | https://thepaypers.com/reports/download/payment-methods-report-2020-whats-new-in-the-way-people-prefer-to-pay | |||
| 2017-04-01 | THE STATE OF DIGITAL LITERACY IN CANADA | Report | The main purpose of this literature review is to bring together relevant research in order to contextualize the Brookfield Institute’s broader State of Digital Literacy in Canada study. While scoping out Canadian policy texts and existing programs, it also draws on international research, best practices, and the work of digital literacy experts globally to define digital literacy, the skills it comprises, as well as its importance. These sources have pulled mainly from educational and pedagogical research, work on technology and the economy, as well as a variety of policy papers, reports, recommendations, and studies | https://brookfieldinstitute.ca/wp-content/uploads/BrookfieldInstitute_State-of-Digital-Literacy-in-Canada_Literature_WorkingPaper.pdf | |||
| 2021-01-15 | The Great Unbundling | Report | Benedict Evans | Covid brought shock and a lot of broken habits to tech, but mostly, it accelerates everything that was already changing. 20 trillion dollars of retail, brands, TV and advertising is being overturned, and software is remaking everything from cars to pharma. Meanwhile, China has more smartphone users than Europe and the USA combined, and India is close behind - technology and innovation will be much more widely spread. For that and lots of other reasons, tech is becoming a regulated industry, but if we step over the slogans, what does that actually mean? Tech is entering its second 50 years. | https://www.ben-evans.com/presentations | ||
| 2021-01-16 | State of Batteries Report 2020 | Report | The State of Batteries Report summarizes what we consider to be the most significant developments in the battery industry. This report seeks to provide a comprehensive and accessible overview of the current state of battery research, industry, talent, and policy. We hope to catalyze in-depth conversations on the state of batteries and its trajectory for the future. | https://www.batterybrunch.org/state-of-batteries-report | |||
| 2021-01-13 | State of Mobile 2021 | Report | The world changed dramatically in 2020. Even with people staying at home across the world, we saw an acceleration of mobile usage habits by 2 to 3 years — strengthening mobile’s role as the most crucial instrument for engaging customers and growing your top line. As the leading mobile data and analytics company helping brands and publishers win on mobile, we are excited to share our curated insights to help businesses succeed. | https://www.appannie.com/en/go/state-of-mobile-2021/ | |||
| 2021-01-27 | DIGITAL 2021: GLOBAL OVERVIEW REPORT | Report | Close to half a billion new social media users. 1.3 billion years spent using the internet. Trillions of dollars spent on ecommerce. If you’re looking for the latest digital insights and social media stats, you’ll find them all here. | https://wearesocial-net.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/common/reports/digital-2021/digital-2021-global.pdf | |||
| 2021-01-12 | News Use Across Social Media Platforms in 2020 | Report | About half of U.S. adults (53%) say they get news from social media “often” or “sometimes,” and this use is spread out across a number of different sites, according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted Aug. 31-Sept. 7, 2020. | https://www.journalism.org/2021/01/12/news-use-across-social-media-platforms-in-2020/ | |||
| 2021-02-17 | Autonomous trucks lead the way | Article | Driverless trucks are already heading out to the highway, as shipping companies increasingly look to autonomous technology to meet rising demand for goods. The focus now: determining the best way to hand off trailers from machine to human. | https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/insights/focus/future-of-mobility/autonomous-trucks-lead-the-way.html | |||
| 2020-11-03 | Why China? A Macro Perspective | Article | In this issue of Sinology, we provide a macro perspective for thinking about whether an investor’s portfolio has enough exposure to China. We bust a few misconceptions—for example, private (not state-owned) companies are the engine of China’s economy—and explain how the country has become the world’s best consumer story. We assess the sustainability of China’s growth trajectory, and examine the key risks, from real estate to shadow banking and demographics. | https://global.matthewsasia.com/insights/sinology/2021/why-china-a-macro-perspective/ | |||
| 2020-12-30 | MLOps Tooling Landscape v2 (+84 new tools) - Dec '20 | Article | While looking for these MLOps tools, I discovered some interesting points about the MLOps landscape: Increasing focus on deployment The Bay Area is still the epicenter of machine learning, but not the only hub MLOps infrastructures in the US and China are diverging More interests in machine learning production from academia | https://huyenchip.com/2020/12/30/mlops-v2.html | |||
| 2021-02-15 | Corporates investing in crypto: Considerations regarding allocations to digital assets | Report | This paper focuses largely on Bitcoin investments, considering recent increased investments in Bitcoin, and its common reference as a store of value. It should be noted that there are numerous types of digital assets, each having their own unique characteristics. Ethereum is also viewed as a store of value, with the added use of enabling transactions on Ethereumbased decentralized applications. | https://www.microstrategy.com/content/dam/website-assets/collateral/bitcoin-downloads/MicroStrategy-and-Deloitte-Corporates-Investing-in-Crypto.pdf | |||
| 2021-02-01 | Electric Vehicle Batteries Addressing Questions about Critical Materials and Recycling | Report | Electric vehicles are critical to reducing transportation pollution and solving the climate crisis, but manufacturing them at the necessary scale will require significantly increasing production of the batteries that power them. How batteries are made, what they are made of, and whether they are reused or recycled affect the sustainability of this crucial component. Even though batteries last many years, they eventually reach the end of their useful life for powering electric vehicles. Policies and incentives for recycling and reusing batteries, including strong health and labor standards, will further lessen the impacts of electric vehicles. | https://ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2021-02/ev-battery-recycling-fact-sheet.pdf | |||
| 2020-10-12 | We don’t really know what’s living in the deep sea – but it’s about to become an industrial zone | Article | Jan Van Poppel | The latest gold rush is driving miners to the bottom of the sea. It may seem like a great alternative to sourcing rare-earth minerals for batteries and computer chips – but we don’t really know what’s living so deep beneath the ocean waves, or whether those lifeforms will survive such mining practices. | https://thecorrespondent.com/750/we-dont-really-know-whats-living-in-the-deep-sea-but-its-about-to-become-an-industrial-zone/784379879250-474f0303 | ||
| 2021-03-21 | The a16z Marketplace 100: 2021 | Report | The a16z Marketplace 100 is an annual ranking of the largest and fastest-growing consumer-facing marketplace startups and private companies. From the 25 newcomers to the list to the emerging marketplace categories, the Marketplace 100: 2021 edition reflects the imprint of a year like no other. | https://info.a16z.com/rs/382-JZB-798/images/marketplace-100-2021.pdf | |||
| 2020-12-15 | 2020 Shareholder letter | Essay/Thoughts/Whitepaper/Opinion | Ross Stevens | MY “BIG FOUR” BITCOIN AHA-MOMENTS Bitcoin is a journey, not a destination, and everyone is on their own path. Every morning when I study Bitcoin, I find myself deeper in awe, humbled by the power, and potential, of its unstructured simplicity. The more I learn about Bitcoin, the more I realize how much there is to know, and how much I want to know. There’s beauty in Bitcoin. | https://www.microstrategy.com/content/dam/website-assets/collateral/bitcoin-downloads/Stone-Ridge-2020-Shareholder-Letter.pdf | ||
| 2020-10-19 | Infrastructure 500 2020 | Report | Bentley Infrastructure 500 is a ranking of infrastructure owners compiled by the CAD software company Bentley Systems. | https://prod-bentleycdn.azureedge.net/-/media/files/documents/bi-500/2020_bi500_en_a4_lr.pdf?la=en&modified=20201019120848&hash=9B76C94FBB5A8730F8BF9BD7EEE95EF6D4156064 | |||
| 2021-01-06 | The Three Axes of Micromobility: Supply Chains, Distribution, and Maintenance | Article | PUNEETH MERUVA | Micromobility (micromobility or MM) as an industry has blossomed over the last ~4 years since the term was coined. In 2019, McKinsey estimated that micromobility would be a $300B-$500B industry by 2030, and new estimates adjusted for the effects of the pandemic suggest a further boost of 5%-10% in the number of passenger km traveled. In 2020, according to the NPD group, e-bike sales reached $490.8M in sales in the US alone, resulting in an 144% increase year over year. | https://www.trucks.vc/blog/the-three-axes-of-micromobility-supply-chains-distribution-and-maintenance | ||
| 2021-03-16 | Tech Nation Report 2021 | Report | Insights from the Tech Nation Report 2021 reveal a number of successes the UK can celebrate, including world-leading growth in deep tech investment at 17%, while North America and Asia both experienced falling rates between 2019 and 2020. | https://technation.io/report2021/ | |||
| 2020-01-16 | DECIPHERING RUSSIA’S “SOVEREIGN INTERNET LAW” | Report | Alena Epifanova | In November 2019, Vladimir Putin’s regime introduced new regulations that create a legal framework for centralized state management of the internet within Russia’s borders. Although full implementation will be extremely difficult, this framework will likely lead to tighter state control over society and additional complications for domestic and foreign companies. The regulations are expected to accelerate the fragmentation of the global internet and to increase Russian reliance on Chinese technology. | https://dgap.org/sites/default/files/article_pdfs/dgap-analyse_2-2020_epifanova_0.pdf |