4 Sunday Forging the Future LS01 13.45-15.00 Al Multaqua Connecting the world carries responsibilities. It demands global interoperability with fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions. Social responsibility and respect for individuals, organisations, countries and cultures must be inherent features of platforms and ecosystems. Future platforms and ecosystems must deliver enhanced protection against abuse or dominance by unaccountable entities. Achieving the right balance between cooperation and competition is a challenge. Funding the Future - in Partnership with McKinsey LS02 15.30-16.45 Abu Dhabi A The “new” universal access paradigm has governments, regulators and operators developing strategies to expand broadband access and consumption across their citizens and markets. Proper investment incentives must be put into place and sufficient market demand stimuli must be developed to protect investment and ensure return. In this context, regulation and government intervention must be a means to an end, not an end in and of itself. Although the investment mindset needs to evolve, beyond financial returns towards new correlations that evaluate the social impacts of investment, commercial justifications must ultimately form the backbone of sustainable investment in a stable and business friendly policy and regulatory environment. 30 leadership sumit