IJGlobal will tomorrow (Thursday) host a webinar focused on digital infrastructure, where we will delve into the international survey of investor appetite for this sector with our partner M&E Global Inc.

The survey ran last month and reached out to a worldwide audience of infrastructure professionals ranging from developers through to lenders, the entire advisory community and right through to systems engineers.

It pulled in responses from 242 senior infra executives and engineers.

The webinar to discuss the findings of the survey – which will take the form of an IJ Unplugged session with Mathew Garver, president and managing director of M&E Global – will be staged on Thursday (30 July) at 16:00 BST, 11:00 EDT, or 08:00 PDT.

To register for the webinar, CLICK HERE…

The majority of respondents to the digital infra survey came from Europe (59%) with the next largest response from North America (19.4%) and Asia Pacific with the third most enthusiastic response (10.1%).

Of those survey participants, the most active response came from lenders who accounted for 27.3% followed by financial advisers on 24.2% and equity investors with 21.7%.  

The key take-away from the survey is that 63% of respondents believe the Covid-19 pandemic will give digital infra a significant push, as people become increasingly dependent on connectivity.

Key data points from the survey include:

• 50.7% – digital infrastructure is key to re-booting economies post coronavirus
• 63% – actively involved in financing/delivery of digital infrastructure
• 52.7% – already integrating digital infra into their current projects
• 22.2% – digital infra will support resilience of current infrastructure
• 59.2% – failure to invest in digital infra will drive down countries’ competitiveness
• 32.4% – government support is key to unblocking digital infra investment
• 29.8% – PPP structures need to be re-structured to allow for digital infra investments
• 18.1% – lack of technical skills will hold back digital infra investment
• 41.3% – cyber security is greatest concern in deployment of digital infra
• 63.6% – benefits of digital infra outweigh risks