Meanwhile, it has become common knowledge that the dramatic expansion of the internet has not only changed our daily lives; now it also allows young emerging nations to take a leading role in shaping the future, thus neutralising the advantage formerly enjoyed by leading industrial nations. Driven by the Internet of Things, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has arrived with an exponentially growing number of big data reservoirs - and it is in fact an evolution. And those big data lakes require an increasing number of technology components leading in turn into an affluence of opportunities enabling previously disadvantaged nations to suddenly become leaders in a sector.