UAE Business: More connectivity needed to overcome digital divide: Samena – Gulf Digital News

UAE Business: More connectivity needed to overcome digital divide: Samena – Gulf Digital News

There was need for more connectivity to overcome the digital divide in meaningful ways, said Bocar BA, CEO of Samena Council.

“Our desired outcomes of the Leaders’ Summit 2022 are really to foster new drive in making beneficial utilisation of 5G, cloud, and related technologies for improving the human condition and prosperity for people and businesses,” he said.

“Thriving in the ‘New Opportunity Realm with Resilience’ is really the overarching imperative for us all. With increased dependencies of our economic and social systems on digital communications infrastructure and services, it is pertinent to address both persisting and emerging challenges associated with new network trends, approaches, policies, regulation, technologies, methodologies, fibre deployment, stakeholder obligations and collective responsibility toward sustainability across all fronts, ranging from investment sustainability to sustainability of the climate,” he said at the Samena Telecommunications Council’s annual congregation of Telecoms and multi-industry leaders, ‘Leaders' Summit 2022’ on May 9.

ICT sustainability

“Our decisions should be attentive to ICT sustainability and to the protection of climate, and we must address Telecom Operators’ issues, ranging from cross-border data flow enablement to overcoming signal interference especially on coastal areas, which impact 5G planning and the region’s aspirations for becoming the IoT hub. And we must rethink