How big is the power of the Internet? 2015 at least $ 2.4 billion loss-disconnection from the Internet network connection-IT information

Beijing on October 25 morning news, whenever we encountered while using the App cannot access the Internet or restricted, and shook her head disapprovingly, because there's not much. However, network crashes cost how much? Brookings Institute (Brookings Institution), a new study shows that in the past year, resulting in losses of more than $ 2 billion.

The study by daruier·weisite, an analyst of the Brookings graduate (Darrell West), is a very rough estimate of these costs, as we sit at the bar, and Massachusetts Institute of technology Economist talking about the back of the napkin are rough and the World Bank.

In essence, West collected figures indicate is the extent of a country's GDP affected, provided the country's economy is based entirely on the Internet, or tied to a specific application. It divided by 365, multiplied by the network collapse of days, for example, is 7 days, get the following results:

This is one of the few national figures. This form is very long, because in the middle of July 2015 to June 2016, many countries experienced Internet or App application crash situations. Totaled about $ 2.4 billion.

West warned that the numbers are only estimates and may be very low numbers.

It is important, it must be noted that. This analysis covers only economic impact on GDP, not covered because data access impeded as a result of tax losses, the impact on productivity, business development barriers associated with network failures, or network outages caused by investors, the cost of the loss of consumer and business confidence. Therefore, the $ 2.4 billion is a conservative estimate may understate actual economic losses.

However, it is a start: the Internet crash for an hour, would cost States millions of dollars, all levels impacts on business and governance activities, if holding the book leaders learned of the information, you should think twice, or at least earlier than where the network returned to normal.

断网的威力有多大？2015年至少损失24亿美元 - 断网,网络连接 - IT资讯

北京时间10月25日上午消息，每当我们在使用App时遇到互联网无法访问或受限时，都会不以为然地摇摇头，因为无计可施。不过，网络崩溃的代价到底有多大？布鲁金斯研究所(Brookings Institution)的一项新研究表明，在过去的一年，由此造成的损失超过20亿美元。

该研究由布鲁金斯研究生的分析师达瑞尔·韦斯特(Darrell West)主持，只是对这些成本进行了非常粗略的估计，如同我们坐在酒吧，与麻省理工学院和世界银行的经济学家谈论餐巾纸粗糙的背面一样。

从本质上讲，韦斯特收集数字表明的是某一国家的GDP受影响的程度，前提是该国经济完全基于互联网，或依赖于特定应用程序。用它除以365，乘以网络崩溃的天数，比方说是7天，得到如下结果：

这只是少数几个国家的数据。这张表格很长，因为在2015年7月至2016年6月中间，不少国家经历过互联网或个人App应用程序崩溃的情况。总计为24亿美元左右。

韦斯特警告说，这个数字只是估计，而且，可能是非常低的数字。

有一点很重要，必须指出。这一分析只涉及到对GDP的经济影响，没有涵盖因数据接入不畅所导致的税收流失、对劳动生产率的影响、与网络故障相关的业务拓展壁垒，或者因网络中断而引起的投资者、消费者和商业信心丧失的成本。因此，24亿美元是一个保守估计，可能低估了实际的经济损失。

不过，这是一个开始：互联网崩溃一小时，就会让国家损失上百万美元，使各个层面的商业和治理活动受到冲击，如果握有生杀大权的领导人得知这一信息，应该会三思而行，或者至少比原地计划稍早一点使网络恢复正常。