Swiss Federal Statistics Office, Eurostat,  Comparis, Net-Metrix, Wemf, Public Data

Some cherry-picks:

(Switzerland has approximately 7.5 million people)

Print media
71.1% read newspapers

10.0% watch tv for at least 3 hours a day

Web media
0.56% watch television online once a week

20.5% download music online

Social Media

20.2% use instant messaging

0.1% use twitter

51.0% have a profile on a social network

21.3% are on Facebook

Mobile

13.0% own a mobile gaming console

4.0% connect to internet with a mobile phone

Love

31.9% have searched for a partner online

14.3% have met their current partner online

More stats

General statistics

70.1% send email

32.9% have not bought anything online ever

25.2% read news online

0.31% buy online once / twice a week

Communication

15.6% use printed phone directories at least 1 a month

15.0% dispose their old mobile phones in an environmentally responible manner

12.6% have no mobile phone

10.7% use VoIP at least once a week

0.88% pay more than 100 CHF a month for their mobile usage

0.75% never text messages

0.60% have an iPhone

Entertainment

82.2% have a photo camera

63.2% have a digital camera

34.0% have an mp3-player

33.8% have an analogue camera

24.4% have a film camera

0.94% make their buy decision on electronic devices based on their children’s decision

0.60% listen to music on their mobile phone daily

Websites / Applications

44.9% google

12.6% search with search.ch

0.1% use twitter

Internet connection

83.3% have an internet access at home

79.7% use the internet

60.3% use the internet daily

40.4% have wi-fi infrastructure at home

33.5% have a broadband internet-access

Media

71.1% read newspapers

10.0% watch tv for at least 3 hours daily

Source: Sonntagszeitung 20.09.2009

The Awards Night will be held on July 9th in London. 400 start-ups from Europe and EMEA were voted on by users and 19 experts. Among the 400 entrants, there were several Swiss startups, namely Amazee, Doodle, NewsCred, RouteRank, Poken, Wuala, Zattoo and Kooaba as well as the Swiss Venture Fund Index Ventures and three start-ups with Swiss co-founders, precisely Amiando, Busuu, Kyte.

I was very happy to see now some many of these companies still in the running after the vote. They are represented in 6 out of 14 categories. Being among the top five and therefore nominated for the Europas is a fantastic accomplishment. Congratulations!

Here are the nominees:

Nominated for Best Application or Service

Nominated for Best Bootstrapped Startup

Nominated for Best Social Innovation

Nominated for Best Cleantech / Environmental Startup

Website: www.routerank.com

Nominated for Best European / Real World Gadget

Nominated for Best Investor

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This was the Keynote speech at Lift France 09 by Gunter Pauli. The title of his speech was “Changing the Planet”. He’s some inspiring thoughts about entrepreneurship, sustainability, and market insufficiencies.

Here some on-the-go statements I really liked!

If you give a man a fish, you will feed him for a day; if you teach him how to fish, he will overfish.

A business man, who pollutes the environment and claims afterwards that he will pollute less, is given an award. There is a double-morale in business.

Biodegradable soap was not sustanable because it fostered the destruction of the rainforest; collateral damage is always tolerated in business; back to the need for ethics.

Every natural system works with what is locally available.

Nature would teach an MBA under the premise: “invest less to gain more” or “substitute something with nothing”; improve higher material efficiency to do more with less; we should stop accepting inefficiencies.

Nature makes polymeres by aminoacids. The bees, the ants, the spiders, they know how to do that. They’ve been doing it for about 70-80 million years. They have a little bit of experience. We forget that we are a recent arrival on Earth. We still havent figured out well how to do it. That’s why we still make a lot of mistakes.