Information and Communication Technology - The Next Generation ICT and Mobile Communications are rapidly becoming indispensable components of our personal lives, industry, and society. ICT has the potential to be the key enabling technology that solves crucial problems in future energy consumption and generation, climate and environmental change, affordable healthcare, efficient transportation, and the inclusive society. ICT will continue to be a focus of European development policies, industrial interest, and user demand. Over the last decades, Sweden has achieved a very strong position in mobile communications. Researchers in Sweden and Finland have driven the development of the mobile internet. Several paradigm shifts lie ahead and these have already started to affect the ICT industry. Sweden as a nation needs to respond strategically to these challenges; this proposal outlines how we can develop our knowledge and competitiveness for The Next Generation ICT systems, while m