Leila Janah Quotes

Even in developing markets, we're seeing the growth of digital communication is proceeding at a very rapid pace.

Government leaders need to ask themselves if they are positioning their country to reap the full potential of the digital economy.

We are now living on Internet time. It's a new territory, and the cyber equivalent of the Oklahoma land rush is on.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

At Samasource, a company I founded in 2008, we train people living in poverty from Kenya to California to develop and market 21st century digital skills to adapt to new economic realities.

I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.

Most people who use the Internet seem take its nature and characteristics for granted, like we take air and water for granted.

It seems there is no area in our culture that is not touched, changed, even swallowed by the Internet. It's both medium and message, mass and personal, social and solitary.

People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

As the TiVos and the Replays are coming into our world - and they're coming - it's better to - be inside the tent and figure out what they're doing and to work hand in hand with them as opposed to saying, 'You know what, the automobile is not going to work. I'm going to stick to my horse and carriage,' you know.

I spent my whole career in the technology business, and I was convinced of the importance, at a grand scale, of the development of global connectivity.

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

The digital explosion has been so explosive.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

In the early stages of Internet in Japan, many said that Japanese and Americans are different. There are 10 reasons why Japanese Internet is not taking off. I said none of them are right; it's just a time lag. And, of course, Japanese Internet took off.

We changed the world many ways with the Internet.

We are now living in a completely digitalized world and a completely globalized world, so we have to find some new mechanisms and values to deal with this post-digitalized and post-globalized world.

Individuals and companies that want to be successful in the 21st century will need to be leaders in using the Internet and related technology.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

All countries will eventually need to rebuild their growth models around digital technologies and the human capital that supports their deployment and expansion.

Technology is something you have to embrace because technology is part of our generation. Digital natives, for instance, are people who grew up in a world that always had the Internet and who always had smartphones. Millennials aren't too far behind: my generation of people, who were in the mix of the Internet when it first came out.

Mr. Trump understands the value of digital operations.

In my country, Gabon, entry into the digital age, which is the future, can be seen in numerous sectors - from telecommunications to security, finance, and hospitality.

When you start working as an Internet entrepreneur, the world is moving at a million miles an hour and is changing rapidly.

Even in mature economies, digital's benefits to society are substantial.