# Sustainability as a Challenge and Driver for Novel Ecosystem 6G Business Scenarios
## 3 Results
### Identified Forces
Local edge cloud architecture introducing virtualized communication, computing, storage, and analytics resources at the intelligent edge of architecturally disaggregated 6G system will enable real-time hyper-local access to applications and services such as augmented and mixed reality. The prosumers will act as a node of the intelligent network, locally rooted in the physical world while connected to the hyperreal intelligence networks contributing to crowdsourced shared information processing that can address collective missions such as the ones currently underway to collect and analyze data related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Innovating to zero and circular economy megatrends stems from sustainable materials and zero-waste and zero-emission product design employing social service innovations. Worldwide carbon emissions of the ICT segment are estimated to grow at a six percent annual compound growth rate. On the other hand, the net positive impact is projected to be accomplished by introduction of a general-purpose 6G platform instead of an enabling technology that enables increased efficiencies, productivity, and environmental performance across other domains. A variety of intelligent devices, in addition to monitoring and gathering information, will harvest energy from the environment and everyday human activity. Data regulation and net neutrality require of internet service providers to treat all traffic equally. On the other hand, network evolution towards 6G is transforming networks to fully service-driven platforms where connectivity is tailored to specific tenant, use case, and application leveraging virtualized resources between mobile operators and cloud providers. Legislation causes uncertainties on converging edge cloud technologies and services, particularly related to cybersecurity [85]. The geopolitics trend consists of several contradicting trends in globalization, nationalism, poly-nodal networking, and sustainability. In particular, there is a tension between centralized power and the empowerment trend stemming from transparency, inclusion, and democracy. The poly-nodalworld trend re-configures the current multi-polarized world into a network where power will be configured in the interaction of technology, economy, and society. Societal systems will face increasing pressure in volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguity (VUCA) environments in political, economic, and sustainability systems. Balancing requires agile decision making that strong leaders will bring, and the confirmation of commitments and values of democracy to influence things in communities from the grassroots level. Increasing diversification and polarization will emerge around various tribes and communities, stemming, e.g., from different values, opinions, ages, locations, or lifestyles. On one hand, this can weaken togetherness and fragment future prospects leading to a skepticism, extremist attitudes, and a rise in populism. On the other hand, awareness among people, communities and enterprises on the sustainability crisis may be echoed in a rising number of people and societies changing their habits, and enterprises investing in sustainable growth. The open and frugal innovation paradigms and open value creation utilizing crowdsourcing and open-source may reinvent society's empowerment. Questions of future resource orchestration and configuration power will emerge arising from the techno-geopolitics in telecommunication and information technologies, and accumulation of data transferred, stored, and analyzed in the networks. Questions on technology choices, data ownership and access, and decisions on the policies will also emerge. The 6G era will increasingly deploy novel sharing economy and circular economy business models that employ existing resources efficiently and sustainably. Ecosystem platforms will not only facilitate integration and collaboration on resources but create value though identifying, matching, and bridging needs and resources.