Current Affairs - Miscellaneous - Discussion

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) released a report titled 'Digital Economy Report (DER) 2019'. DER was formerly known as the Information Economy Report. It examines the scope for value creation and capture in the digital economy by developing countries. Global Internet Protocol (IP) traffic has grown from about 100 gigabytes (GB) per day in 1992 to more than 45,000 GB per second in 2017. By 2022, global IP traffic is projected to reach 150,700 GB per second. Regarding value added in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, the United States and China together account for almost 40% of the world's total.