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the issues of shrinking digital space, fostering a healthy IoT
ecosystem, and making networks efficient and operations cost-
effective are critical, the Private and the Public sectors need to
consider some important factors that can contribute in the right
direction when it comes to IPv6. BA highlighted that the Private
sector should aim for building consensus on approaches to
implement IPV6 as smoothly as possible. Given that transition
from IPV6 has its own cybersecurity and infrastructure asset
security considerations, which demand timely placement in the
agenda of the industry, while transitioning or thinking transition,
it may be necessary to create learning modules that would allow
for gaining understanding necessary for their role to manage
the changes coming with the shift from IPV4 to IPV6. Moreover,
the region’s economic development is greatly dependent on
robust ICT/IT infrastructure. Thus, the private sector should
work in synch with entities like the national IPV6 Task Force in
Saudi Arabia and TDRA in the United Arab Emirates. Accelerated
digital transformation requires an overall vision where
technology, along with human capital, improves efficiency and
effectiveness of business. This can only be achieved with a new
internet protocol, and thus governments should play their role
in necessarily driving adoption of IPv6, communicating IPv6
as a national priority, and encouraging cross-stakeholder and
cross-industry participation in capacity-building opportunities
related to IPv6.

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