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of viable ideas around the world. It reinforces our
commitment to build a work culture in government,
business, and education, and to support innovation
and high levels of performance. The goal of technology
should not be to make humans more like machines.
It should be to let humans be more human. In this
regard, 5G has tremendous potential to contribute
in shaping lives to better fit our needs, as human
beings. Serving those who have limited to no access
to connectivity can make 5G a great advancement for
the entire world. Thus we should not only focus on 5G
as mere technology, but on the goals it can help serve.
• These views were echoed by H.E. Shaikh Nasser
Bin Mohamed Al-Khalifa, Acting General Director,
TRA-Bahrain, who stated that the Internet can bring
considerable benefits to children in Bahrain and the
world such as education and development. However, it
also exposes them to risks such as unsuitable content,
means by which 5G adoption could while creating a new socio-economic abusive interactions with others and exposure to
be accelerated, and how 5G networks momentum in all aspects of social aggressive marketing practices. He elaborated that
can support investments in various and business environments in a considering these risks, TRA Bahrain is putting up all
sectors such as transportation, meaningfully digitized, integrated, efforts for the online protection of children.
health care, education, utilities, smart, and useful manner. • H.E. Bassam A. Al-Bassam, Deputy Minister
for Telecom and Infrastructure, MCIT – KSA,
financial services, energy and others, acknowledged that the pace of change in telecom
The presence of decision-makers industry is accelerating and telecom operators will
The Summit vividly and stakeholders, ranging from continue to play a very important role in the future by
showed how large- heads of state, heads of global defining how we live, work and enable digital health
and education.
scale industry events bodies, leaders from the regional • Dr. Amr Badawi, Chairman ITU WRC-19 – Egypt,
policy and regulatory circles, and
summarized the relevant results of the WRC-19
can be enriched with CEOs from telecom and non- conference and the future of WRC-23. He said that
live experience-sha- telecom private sectors joining the WRC-19 proved to be a major success in reaching
global harmonization on spectrum. A major aspect of
the
into
conversations
from
ring across countries, across the world in the one-day WRC-19 were the additional frequency bands identified
for services such as HAPS and EESS. Dr. Amr also told
and how 5G can remote leadership congregation how ITU Recommendation (standard) was approved
elevate the remote demonstrated will to among top to integrate ICTs in evolving Intelligent Transport
Systems (ITS) to connect vehicles, improve traffic
decision-makers
collaborate
digital collaboration and address requirements of the management and assist in safer driving. The WRC-
23 will focus on key areas including Earth stations in
experience. post-COVID world, having already motion, HIBS, Aeronautical mobile applications and
entered the 4th industrial revolution.
GMDSS.

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