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SAMENA COUNCIL ADVOCACY SAMENA TRENDS

“Cybersecurity should be endorsed carbon emissions. Companies such
at the board level, owned by the CEO as Nokia and Huawei, both of which and resourcefulness of such platforms can be
while being driven by a common are valued members of SAMENA leveraged by both governments and the private
language of risk and opportunities Council, are making tremendous sector.
rather than by compliance require- contributions on future network
ments and penalties. This would development and deployment.” Cybersecurity policy and regulation should
provide the necessary mindset from SAMENA Council observes that be concerned with the welfare of society.
being reactive to being proactive, future network deployment, includ- Moreover, in the interest of the society as a
and hence impact approaches for ing 6G, would greatly require atten- whole, Policymakers and Regulators need to
deploying future networks”, he tion to fulfilling environmental, view the Private Sector as the enabling engine
added. SAMENA Council views that social and economic sustainability of ICT-driven nation-building and sustainable
deploying the future network at requirements, as well as supporting development and not as a mere revenue
scale is about balancing beneficial the goals of the Paris Agreement of contributor to the national treasury. Therefore,
use-cases, differentiation, moneti- the United Nations Framework Con- before taking any regulatory or interventional
zation, fulfilment of national and vention on Climate Change. On the steps, sufficient efforts should be made to
global commitments, and, ulti- latter front, SAMENA Council is capture the impact of an intervention on the
mately, unleashing innovation and leading a panel discussion during economic welfare of all participants in the
making collective progress toward COP28, being held in Dubai in market, including digital ecosystem players,
human development. In his inter- December. As the ITU prepares to consumers, and the economy.
vention at GCF, BA also linked sus- issue framework (expected in
tainability and future network December) for developing 6G stan- Operators need to be enabled and incentivized
deployment, including 6G. He added: dards, and as various technology to invest in infrastructure development, including
“If we look at the work being done companies, including some Mem- in cyber security infrastructure, to ensure that
on 6G, we note that one of the key bers of SAMENA Council, gear up everyone gets connected, remains connected,
targets for developing 6G includes toward 6G research and develop- and that adequate infrastructure is available
cutting the average power con- ment, technical requirements, sub- for the increasingly bandwidth-hungry and
sumption of 6G networks in half as mission process, and evaluation complex services and content, especially in a
compared to 5G, while still support- criteria for potential IMT-2030 6G highly inter-connected and cyber-threat prone
ing peak speeds 100 times higher radio interface technologies will environment. Thus, we need to adopt a multi-
than today’s 5G networks. We are emerge, with final set of 6G stan- prong collaboration and incentivization strategy
talking about dramatically reducing dards expected to be issued later in among Operators and Governments.
per-bit energy consumption and 2030.

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