 So here is my great pleasure to be in this session. First of all, my name is Marvin Ben-Rashid. I'm a cybersecurity coordinator in ITU. Here we start the session by a quick presentation of this topic. Then we will move here to some issue. Maybe I will put my headset. Just apologize for that. I hope that you can hear me really well right now. So we start our session by quick presentation of the topic. Then we will move to presentation in 15 minutes. Then if the time is low, we'll open the question for five minutes. So our today's session is about sign, which is the next generation internet architecture with a state of the art security and scalability properties meant to overcome the limitation of the current IP, PGP-based internet to achieve strong security, high availability, and high efficiency. Born as a research project at ATH Zurich in Switzerland and Carnegie Mignol University in the US, the architecture is now used for critical infrastructure communication by industry and government. In this talk, we'll introduce the architecture and show how it is part of where properties can be used to reduce network infrastructure carbon footprint. We also show how an NGO is exploring the use of sign to protect confidential information for humanitarian purposes. Our guest speaker of today is Mr. Nicola Restoni. Nicola Restoni is a research assistant in network security at ATH Zurich, where he is responsible for deploying and promoting sign, a secure and energy-efficient next generation internet. He currently works together with NGU on bringing secure internet to developing countries. Prior to this, he was at Open Systems, where he supported NGU in operating networks security solution in challenging environment. Nicola, good morning, and the floor is yours. Thank you. All right. Well, so thanks a lot for your introduction. Ben, thank you all for being here. So let me quickly share my screen. Are you able to see my slide? Yes, we can hear. We can see it. OK, perfect. All right. Yeah, I guess we already had a pretty nice introduction. So thanks a lot for that. So let's get started and dive straight into SIO, this next generation internet architecture. So before we get started, I actually wanted to tell you a story. And I want to go back to the times where internet was really booming and starting to become prevalent. And this is in 1989. And there were two engineers from Cisco and Juniper, and they were having lunch at one of the EITF meetings. And they were discussing during this lunch about how they could connect all those new internet networks all together, and how those networks could exchange routing information. So those pioneers, they started really running down on their Neptune. And they come out with this protocol that is what is today BGP, or the Border Gateway Protocol. And this protocol, still today, after so many years, is still the one responsible for all ISPs to exchange routing information. And while I think it is really beautiful that such protocol could survive for such a long time, we believe that this is also causing some issues. In some way, we can say that the internet is on fire. And this is not really only because, well, back in those times, internet only had a few times of thousands of connected devices. And today there's billions, and this is growing. But this is also because BGP really lacks any concept of sort of anything the way the protocol is designed. But it also sometimes is cause of frequent outages, not to mention attacks. So for example, denial of service attacks that are becoming more and more prevalent, but also routing attacks, where traffic can be hijacked by malicious entities. Because BGP does not really have, at least in this native version, any built-in security. Ultimately, BGP and today's internet cannot even provide communication guarantees in the sense that sometimes, yeah, the communication might interrupt. And this really makes today's internet not really fit for running, let's say, critical infrastructure. And that's why usually, organizations have to rely on these lines or other means of communication. So at ETH Zurich, we started thinking a few years ago, what if we were to redesign interdomain routing and the new internet architecture from scratch? Well, of course, we wanted to support all sorts of new applications, cloud computing, and so on. But our main focus was really to work on something that could provide security, performance, and high availability by design. And that's how we came up with SCION, which means scalability, control, and isolation on next-generation networks. And when designing this architecture, we focused on having something that could provide highly secure and available communications while making most attacks really impossible by design. And this is thanks to, basically, cryptography being built in pretty much in every single aspect of this protocol. We believe that strong cryptography, it is not really useful unless you also build, let's say, simple and flexible governance model so that in SCION, you can have sovereign internet operations and you can also tolerate that some part of the infrastructure is compromised. And SCION makes sure that if a part of the infrastructure is compromised, let's say, in a certain country, other countries are not necessarily affected by that, as it happens today in BGP. We also wanted to think about carbon footprint and energy efficiency. And in the end, obviously, we wanted to have an architecture that could provide, by default, also high availability so that you can actually also run critical infrastructure and control systems on it without all the interruptions that you have if you use today's public internet. So this was really a research project for a while at ETH Zurich. We spent over 150 person years of research. And in the last few years, this has been really moving from research to actually being used by organizations and governments. So how does actually SCION look like? Well, the main concept behind SCION is that this is a past aware internet architecture. And that means that we have a control plane that is responsible for routing. So for figuring out where traffic should go and disseminating this information across the whole global network. And when you look at packets, they look a little bit different from IP because packets actually carry path information end to end. And this is really interesting because, well, in some way, this makes SCION routers also very simple and cheap. And at the same time, it is also enabling SCION to be massively multipath. So that means that if you want to talk from, let's say, S to D, while on today's internet, you only have one path. And if this fails, then there might be an interruption. With SCION natively, you get multipath. And in this example between S and D, you can see that there is about 54 different paths. And this is really interesting because it allows you to route information in a way that is either more highly available, as you always have backup paths, or also more performant. All right. So so far, we briefly introduced SCION. I wanted to spend a few minutes to talk about some of the use cases with this protocol. So first of all, let's imagine we have an organization and it wants to talk to either one of its branches or maybe one of its customers or partner somewhere else in the world. And if you use today's internet, or for example, an SD1 solution, for each internet connection, you only get one path. But being SCION natively multipath, you're actually able to decide which path your data takes. And when you do that, you can actually specify different criteria. So in this example, we see that voice-over AP traffic that is a bit more latency-sensitive can go on a shorter terrestrial path, while more generic traffic can go on a cheaper path on a longer submarine route. And when you choose those paths, you can actually use different criteria. So obviously, latency and bandwidth are important. But one really cool thing about SCION is that you can also choose which infrastructure you should go across, which could be, for example, the jurisdiction. Or you can also look at the CO2 footprint of those paths. And we're gonna go look at this later. All right. So as mentioned, when designing SCION, we also wanted to have a look at the, say, carbon footprint of internet infrastructure. And we looked at predictions and we noticed that fixed networks, which actually include also core networks, are actually responsible for a significant part of this internet consumption. And this is expected to grow by 44% in the next eight years. So as SCION is focusing on inter-domain routing, we were wondering, how can SCION help in tackling this issue? And well, first of all, SCION is really efficient in the way forwarding is really happening in routers. Standard IP routers have huge routing tables and this routing table lookup process is very energy consuming. And that's why with SCION, by having very simple and cheap routers, we can make forwarding 30% more energy efficient than today's IP routing. In addition to this, we also opened a line of research where we are building a model for calculating CO2 emission per feet. And this is really based on which path traffic is routed on. And we built a way to embed into the architecture control and data plane information that basically tells SCION users what is the CO2 impact of any given traffic path. And we envision with this to build a mechanism where ISPs can be incentivized and rewarded for providing green paths. And green paths means that they're running on energy efficient infrastructure or that they're procuring green energy. And the cool thing about SCION is that really, this can be built into SCION cryptography so that it can be somehow verified when it comes to how traffic is routed. All right, another really interesting use case where we have been working on is together with an NGO. So we have been working with the ICRC, the International Committee of the Red Cross and they face huge challenges with migrants and refugees. And they're often operating in really challenging environments. And they were working on this humanitarian digital platform where those people at risk can basically store their documents in a digital safe. And when it comes to such volatile and complex environments, well, a data breach could actually really have life or death outcomes. So for them, it is really paramount that data protection is secured at every single step. And so we looked at SCION and thought, how can our geofencing feature help? And that's why we're building a system where users are connecting to the secure server run by the ICRC. And they can do so by hopping over the SCION backbone where geofencing is giving, let's say, certain and guaranteed paths between users and the server and so that we can make sure that traffic is not eavesdropped by any adversary on path. And we're working now to deploy this in the South Africa and to test this with users. All right. Well, wrapping up, we have been talking so far about SCION and I must say, this is really a bold idea. And initially, this was really a research project, but in the last years, this has really been moving to something that has been used by companies and organizations. And there is a spin-off of ETH Zurich called Anapaya that is leading the global productive deployment of SCION. And what exists today is really a globally distributed BGP backbone that is completely independent from today's internet. So it is not affected by folds on today's internet and can provide really global and secure communication. And for example, if you are in Switzerland, you can get native SCION peering at the Swiss internet exchange. And there's also ISPs throughout Switzerland, Europe and Asia that are starting to deploy and implement SCION. And one of the cool thing is that they can provide this path-aware connectivity as a premium option to their customers. And we have seen that this is also popular with certain organizations. So we have the Swiss government, but also quite a few financial institutions that are now leveraging SCION for certain critical workloads. So there's been really more and more interest about this. And if you want to know more about SCION, I invite you to check out our resources. On our website, you will find extensive documentation and on SCION lab, you can also find research and development global SCION instance where you can actually connect your network, connect your devices and really start to experiment with this architecture. Our code is also open source and we're also setting up a foundation that will long-term take care of the development of the SCION protocol. I wanted to thank you all for your attention. If you have any question, you can also find here my email and also the email of our professor, Adrian Perry. I'm really looking forward to hear your questions now. I guess we have a few minutes. Thank you. Thank you very much, Nicola, for this excellent presentation and sharing this details about this excellent project, SCION project, which I think many countries that will benefit from it in the future. So here, I think as we have very limited time, maybe we can open the floor for one or two questions. So maybe here we have one question in the chat from Aminata, our colleagues, what is needed to deploy SCION? For example, it's only software on top of the existing infrastructure or is there a need to have more infrastructure and what are the case? So this is the question from Aminata. For you. Yeah, that is a very good question and thank you for that. So SCION can run as software and the way this is implemented is fully, let's say containerized based on Docker. So there is not necessarily physical infrastructure. It can be fully, let's say, virtualized. What is really needed to achieve strong properties though is really to have a connectivity between ISPs that does not necessarily rely on BGP. So it could be a direct layer tree link, an IP link or a layer two link. And it is quite flexible. It can run also as an overlay over the internet. But obviously if you run over internet then you might lose some of the security properties but we are quite flexible in the way this can be deployed. Yeah, good to think too. The last question here from our colleague I think from Eduardo, he is asking most common threats in BGP are being addressed by managers. How it is different beside the carbon reduction? Yeah, this is a very good question. So thank you for that. Yes, and we're actually welcoming monitors and obviously our PKI that is making BGP a bit less vulnerable than it used to be. So one thing is that BGP, let's say, RPKI and BGP stack, they do address some of the problems with prefix hijacking, but they don't really prevent all the rerouting attacks. So you can, for example, reuse an existing ROA and still use it to somehow send traffic over a different path. And you still don't get any guarantees when it comes to that. Another issue that is not really solved by monitors is BGP convergence time. So when there's issues with BGP, as you have only one path, it can take minutes to recover globally. And Scion is natively multipath, so you can do this really in milliseconds. And that's what makes Scion a lot more fit for all surrounding, let's say, critical infrastructure and controls. Yeah, thank you very much, Nicola. Thank you. So I think this session comes to the end. We'd like just here to thank our speaker and we are very grateful for the time and the effort you took to share your thoughts and the experience with these Scion projects. So thank you very much, Nicola. And now I would like to hand over the floor to my colleague, Rooda Amir Ali, who will share the next session. Rooda, are you here with us? Can you hear us? You're muted, Rooda. Good morning, everybody. Thank you. Can you hear me? Yes. Yeah. The floor is yours. Thank you. Yes, thank you so much. Actually, I'm going to tell you about the Arabic language. I'm going to talk about it today in our session about the Internet of Things and the future of the fifth generation technology. I think it's moving to the future of the future in the Arab world. Of course, my name is Rooda Amir Ali. I'm a program manager in the local office in the Arab countries, in the Arab countries of Salat. Actually, I would like to thank all of you and I would like to thank all of the speakers who have also agreed to accept our invitation to talk about the Internet. Actually, I would like to make sure that all of the speakers are available. You can give us just two minutes. I will now invite my colleague, Even Zina, to give you some information about how to use Zoom in this area. I would kindly ask my colleague to provide some housekeeping regarding the use of Zoom during this session. Please, Even Zina. Thank you, Rooda. I would like to ask all participants to keep their microphones muted. And, wait, I think we'll use the other one. Sorry about that. Dear participants, thank you for joining. And before starting the meeting, I would like to give some instructions on the Zoom platform and the meeting itself. This meeting is entirely remote. The audiences can't ask to keep their camera and microphone switched off. Please rename yourselves and add the represented member states, sector member, or academia before your name. To do so, please right-click on your name in the list of participants. The moderator of each session will recognize the speakers and will give you the floor when the turn comes. You can view and activate the captioning by clicking on Live Transcript in the bottom bar of the Zoom interface. Captioning may also be followed on the separate browser, the link in the chat. The meeting also benefits six UN languages interpretation. Please select your preferred language from the bottom bar of the Zoom interface. The meeting is being webcast live and live streamed on ITU's YouTube account. The recordings will be available on the website around 24 hours after the event. Every fort is being made to facilitate the smooth flow of this meeting. Thank you for your cooperation and I wish you a good meeting. Back to you, Ruda. Thank you so much. So, I will now, okay. I would like to welcome you all, I would like to welcome you all in the name of the Arabic language school for the introduction of the international community and I would like to welcome you the director of the language school, Mr. Adel Darwish, and I would like you to wait for Mr. Adel Darwish to say a few words in order to follow the course. The issue is very important, especially in the Arabic language school. It could be related to things and the five main networks that are made important and alive to create a creative and sustainable model. And it could be a great opportunity to work in the Arabic language school and to have a lot of cooperation on the issues or on the global level. In addition, it also plays a big role in the technology of the language school as one of the main components of the language school through the development in the Arabic language school that it helps to create the ecosystem or the possible environment so that it helps to develop the development of the Arabic language in the present day. In fact, COVID-19 has caused a great impact in the Arabic language and on the global level. And it has also affected the various countries and also the Arab countries. I would like to talk about this in terms of transformation and digital and the development of technologies and the services of the numbers and technologies in order to create this transformation and it has affected many of the countries. And also, for the people who work in the Arab countries, they have also been able to work in the Arabic language school and they have been able to work in collaboration with these changes quickly and develop their networks so that they can achieve the needs especially in the development of the Arabic language school. In fact, the ITU has released a report on ICP Trends and Development in the Arabic language between 2017 and 2020 and it shows that there is a progress in the technological level with the information and solutions in the Arabic language school and this is the result. And despite the fact that especially in the related to the development of the system it has increased to 30% due to the cooperation on the level of the system. Actually, we will see today in this session a different view of the different types of solutions around their views when it comes to the Internet of Things and the technology of the fifth generation as a power for the future and the future. I would like to invite Dr. Marianne Haraf to speak with us in the future. I would like to ask all of you to take a group photo for this session. Can I ask you all to take a group photo for this session? Thank you. Okay, let me wait for a few minutes. Oh, not minutes, sorry. I need more people to connect their cameras. Okay, I think we're ready. So you can smile and I will take a picture now. Got it. Thank you so much. I wish you a nice meeting. Thank you. Also, I would like to ask the moderator to announce the short poll regarding the topic of this session. It's none. I don't know what you want to show the results because now I have only 20% voted. We can wait for a few minutes. Let me know, please, if you can see the results. Thank you. Excuse me, Ruda, I have an issue. I don't have English interpretation. Can you check, please, if you are on the off channel or on the Arabic one? Yeah, now I can hear. Okay, the interpretation is back, sorry, Ruda. Okay, I will repeat. As I said, it gives us the results that we have now. The results are very difficult. It shows how important and effective the technology of people is in terms of things and very good networks regarding the development of smart cities in the Arab world in the mid-1980s. I think it could be very effective. The fact that COVID-19 is due to the corona pandemic could make the countries start to apply some of these technologies to make sure of these types of technologies. And also to the third question, which is what are the important challenges in terms of technologies, in terms of these technologies in terms of smart cities. The truth is, in 34% of countries that the issue of smart cities is one of the most important challenges. Also, there could be a difference between the real situation and the security aspects to be the most important challenges. And also, in terms of technology. I thank you very much for your participation and for your support. The first is Dr. Marianne Azar. I don't know if she knows. She has a technical issue. Dr. Marianne. Okay. Dr. Marianne. I don't know if she knows. She doesn't know. Okay. The first question is Dr. Reem Bel-Hasseen Sharif. Dr. Reem Bel-Hasseen Sharif is a general engineer. She's an innovation and strategy officer at Tunisia Telecom. Dr. Reem is a general engineer. She has worked for the incumbent telecom operator in Tunisia since 1994 and she is currently the chief innovation and strategy and the responsible of this transformation at Tunisia Telecom. Dr. Sharif Bel-Hasseen Sharif has participated in several IT conferences, seminars and workshops and she is a vice chair of the IT group Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group T-Side and the current supporter on standardization strategy. She is also vice chair of IT Study Group 13 and it's a regional group for Africa vice chair of working party history slash 13 for the IT standardization for IT for vocabulary. Moreover, she was a vice chair of the IT focusing group on reaching the gap from innovation to standards between 2013 and 2015. Welcome on board Dr. Reem and please the floor is yours. Dr. Reem Dr. Reem Can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you. Yes, Dr. Reem Dr. Reem Dr. Reem Dr. Reem Dr. Reem Hello, can you hear me? Yes, we can hear you. Okay. Are you in front of me? Yes, we can see you. Yes, we can hear you. Yes, we can see you. Thank you so much. Okay. Hello everyone. Thank you very much, Ms. La Moderatrice for this introduction. I have the honor of participating today in this very important webinar with a topic of today especially for our Arab region and I thank the development office of telecommunications as well as the regional office for the Arab states for the local invitation today. So my humble presentation is going to be on the intelligent cities of the Arab world and more particularly on the role that telecom operators can play as I work for Tunisian telecom operators Tunisian telecom so it's the historical operator. So today there is a strong growth in the urbanization in the Arab countries and the particularity of the Arab countries is that the population is double every 30 years and should go from about 430 million in 2019 to about 851,000 in 2050 according to recent predictions. The second particularity is that there is a non-proportional increase distributed between rural and urban areas and urban indeed. So today we have 66% of the Arab countries who live today in cities whereas in the world 55% of the world population lives in cities so we can see that in the Arab countries there is this particularity where there is more urbanization so today the Arab region has a rapid urbanization as you can see in this slide with a annual urbanization rate of 2.5% and there is a strong evolution of the urban population in all the sub-regions of the Arab world and it is well distributed in all the Arab regions and as we can see in all the sub-regions of the Arab world without exception in the Arab countries Gulf, Mashrek, Maghreb and South. However this growing trend of urbanization in the Arab countries is the origin of the emergence of several challenges mainly related to urban state the pollution of the air we can also mention the increase of poverty and social exclusion the inadequate infrastructure and services food insecurity the disparity of wealth the non-durable modes of supply in us and the energy consumption as well as many other challenges that are presented in this slide in order to face this challenge as a result of the increase of urbanization rates and in the framework of their efforts to meet the needs of their citizens the Arab countries tend to launch projects of intelligent cities especially considering the strong positive relationship between the intelligent cities and prosperity and economic growth for these projects, the Arab countries rely on the technology of points to increase efficiency productivity and thus improve the governance of cities indeed the projects of intelligent cities that have been launched in the Arab countries to transform the old cities into intelligent cities to create completely new intelligent cities I will mention some initiatives in some Arab countries of course, several other initiatives in these same countries or in other Arab countries are already launched that I may not have mentioned in my slide so for example I will start with Tunisia which gives a lot of importance to the transformation of some Tunisian cities instead of the capital Tunisia the capital of the south and the project of intelligent cities in Bizerte other projects will be planned in other Tunisian cities as I mentioned in this slide a lot of Arab countries have initiatives of implementation of the concept of intelligent cities for the transformation of some big cities into intelligent cities instead of Saudi Arabia the creation of a new capital administrative in Egypt in the United Arab Emirates we will also have a lot of countries Bahrain also Algeria, Jordania and Oman of course as I mentioned I did not mention all Arab countries but they are all working to create and to work on projects of intelligent cities as I already mentioned intelligent cities is essentially based on point technologies in terms of telecommunications information in particular the internet of objects is considered as the motor of intelligent cities it is a system that relies on the connection of various devices and data sources to a centralized communication infrastructure as well as the availability of data to authorities and citizens who can exploit them to respond to urban activities the internet of objects can improve security the quality of life especially citizens through several applications as you see in this slide public services intelligent management of water, energy and waste intelligent health intelligent parking etc. there are many use cases presented in this slide internet services of objects can be provided with several technologies as well as SIGFOX technologies and cellular technologies 3G, 4G and today 5G and the last point technology currently used in intelligent cities and 5G technology also called IMT 2020 which is considered as a key catalyst of the internet of objects and of several considerations 5G will benefit from LPA technology by allowing the transmission of urban environment to have a wider and more capacity critical services 5G also allows also it will allow mass communication of machine type to extend the connectivity internet of objects a large number of devices with several quality and service requirements there are also critical services that will benefit from a weak communication offering a 1 ms with very weak error rates for a minimum package loss I also quote the Sizing principle which is very interesting in 5G and which allows to isolate the IoT devices internal objects in terms of traffic control and resources by improving the security and efficiency the combination of the Edge Computing mobile with 5G with the data analysis to have closer to the IoT device by minimizing traffic on the network and reducing latency which allows to make real-time analysis better connectivity and less risk of confidentiality of the data so the 5G for intelligent cities is very significant it allows to connect billions of devices to ensure better penetration in buildings to ensure better security of personal data connect heterogeneous networks to support important data volumes reduce latency reduce costs reduce energy consumption when the 5G networks are connected to new software such as artificial intelligence augmented reality virtual reality there are new materials such as robots, drones several possibilities of new emerging revenue the 5G services improve a variety of cases of intelligent cities especially education health and energy but the three sectors which are currently the main areas of interest of the market are the transport sectors public security and services made to citizens this important potential of the 5G for intelligent cities shows the important role of connectivity in such projects and thanks to the network of telecom operators which are at the service of intelligent cities today the world market of intelligent cities as you see it is estimated to reach in 2025 about 238 billion of dollars with a rate of annual growth compensated in 2029 so today what proves there is a vast opportunity for the actors of the value chain of intelligent cities compared to telecom operators telecom operators are partners today of connectivity connecting people and objects and allowing industrial solutions I apologize so as I said telecom operators are connectivity partners today reliable for the infrastructure of these intelligent cities so thanks to operators today we can connect people and objects while allowing industrial solutions but what is important today for operators is that today for intelligent cities connectivity only represents 5% to 10% of the value chain so in this context of intelligent cities they present new requirements coverage quality of service what is needed for the operators of the operators of the operators so today we need as operators to invest in the value chain in these intelligent cities in order to increase their revenue and make investments and thus fully take advantage of the opportunities related to the intelligent cities so today I will quote some opportunities for the operators as part of the aggregation of data analysis of insights so today for the operators with devices and connectors connected generating data-selected states so today there is a lot of opportunities for the operators to assemble these data through their network so in this context the analytics data with edge computing to generate analysis of insights more contextual and more appropriate so other opportunities are today the solutions based on the internet of objects for verticals so today the telecom operators can position themselves as solution suppliers for a multitude of cases of verticals such as transport intelligent connected cars buildings so all the verticals of the IoT operators can position themselves as solution suppliers for them so today I will quote the usage of surveillance at the distance of health which is very important for all citizens particularly citizens who are in areas where there is not really a strong that is to say health services are not very widespread so today we can monitor health at a distance which allows the detection and analysis of health data to have predictive information on patient health so I also quote the use of operations so today the operators are very well known for their know-how in management so they have the possibility to act today as an operational hub managing and monitoring the active in real time so these efforts can include today a smart control center for public security public services and health care as well as other aspects that can be monitored in an integrated way as an operator there are also very important services that today are managed services and operators today can assemble the suppliers and consumers at the same time under a digital platform and manage services for every segment to know the transport segment of health and smart buildings to allow efficiency, optimization and the evolution of resources according to the needs so thanks to the experience of operators in terms of technology and management of subscribers so we are well placed to be suppliers at the same time managing services and connectivity for smart cities as the operators provide their role in the smart cities today we can facilitate a creator in partnership with the governments city planners and the actors of the devices and the analysis of the internet of the operators yes sorry yes you understand so I continue so today as I said today we can assemble everyone it is clear it is clear that the operators and the commas are well placed to accompany the connectivity of their digital transformation in every sector of smart cities and this has several assets which I quote today the assets of the operators today it is the fixed and mobile networks so today of the fiber at 5G of the objects of big data today one of the characteristics of the operators is the brand of trust which is very appreciated by the high availability the quality of service the confidentiality and security because there is a lot of data and it is very important the capacity of authentication and software manufacturing today also as the service provided to the customer and the customer in general today we have several channels of distribution and commercialization which are also well offered to the general public B2B so the client insights in real time today we can know the presence the placement of the customers what they are using today many operators have a good infrastructure in the data centers using the last generations certified data centers ISO 27001 etc TIR3 or TIR4 and another asset is that today operators have a lot of technological expertise in telecom networks as well as in IT systems I will briefly share with you the experience of Telecom Tunisie briefly just for your information since 2008, Telecom Tunisie is very aware of the importance of services made of smart services so we started with the solutions of location by satellite GPS tracking then we continued to work on a lot of smart solutions so I will quote just a few of them so we launched in 2018 the geolocation service for children and elderly people with problems these services found really strong there were a lot of people in these services for families so today in 2017 we also launched the domotic solutions with local partners so we really insisted especially on the works of smart home and smart office so for everything that is smart home we have offered services that allow the clients to effectively pilot their homes and monitor them remotely thanks to a set of smart equipment connected to a relay box on the internet we also offered to control the access to your home through smart lighting smart heating security system so all of this was thanks to the use of smart phones or tablets or through your computer compared to the smart office it is also very widespread in Tunisia it is the work on the map that allows today to the clients so companies to supervise all these buildings and to be alerted in real time in case of intrusion or incident during its absence while optimizing energy consumption so these services were very widespread for small and medium-sized companies and also for some big companies who were interested in this service it was also reported that how much? very quickly because we obtained a license the RA that allows us to launch offers to AYOTI this license allows us to launch AYOTI with partners so today we launched other services so thanks to this technology so the smart light, smart freeze and smart energy I will go very quickly in December today in relation to 5G in order to provide services so Tunisia Telecom puts a lot on its infrastructure and network and which are in perpetual evolution as the slide of Tunisia Telecom we have crowned the previous year in the year 2020 for a successful 5G test network in Tunisia we have recorded higher capacity 2.2 gigabits per second this project given the importance of capital for Tunisia Telecom it will be the object of several initiatives of collaboration with public and private sectors to develop the ecosystem of this technology especially smart cities the launch of 5G in Tunisia is scheduled in 2023 currently the network infrastructure of Tunisia Telecom is 5G ready so to conclude today I will go directly to the recommendations so among the recommendations I will go directly to the recommendations so today I propose to invite the ITD to conduct periodic studies on the impact of smart cities on the economic development and a group of Arab work on the sustainable smart cities and the 5G which would define the mechanisms necessary to exploit the expertise available in relation to these subjects we want to accelerate the development of sustainable smart cities and the 5G in Arab countries to share the experience of Arab countries advanced in this subject one last point is to encourage an important application of Arab countries in the work of the ITD on the sustainable smart cities and the 5G I thank you so much for your kind attention and I will be open to any questions or to give you more clarification about the point that I mentioned in my presentation thank you very much thank you very much thank you very much thank you very much and now I will hand over to our next speaker I'm not sure if Dr. Maryann is here or she still has some technical issues Dr. Maryann Dr. Maryann Dr. Maryann I will I will tell you the second in today's session is Mr. Dana Reyes Mr. Dana Reyes is the president of the smart ways of communication and she is a communication company with a number of special services in Bahrain she focuses on smart services that provide needs of different sectors more than 13 years we have the experience of explaining the smart solutions in the sectors of communication she is a expert in smart solutions and smart technology and she also is the president of Bahrain in 2016 Peace be upon you on the presentation. I will be presenting the introduction to the English presentation. I'll switch to English now. I will be sharing my presentation on English. I hope my screen is clear for everyone. for everyone? Yeah, thank you. Okay, so in my intervention today I will be focusing mainly on the applications of smart city solutions in the Arab region. I already gave an introduction about what we do. So we actually work with clients, we work with vendors, we work with governments to advise on the implementations of smart city solutions. As you can see, there are different elements in the smart city. There are different definitions of smart cities. Basically, they all talk about the same pillars, but with different application for each depending on the country or the organization that is adopting it. The one that I gravitate towards is this diagram, which was published in the World Economic Forum report of April 2020 on the smart real estate. So it basically talks about cities that are liveable, that are sustainable, that are affordable, and that are resilient. So when we talk about smart, it encompasses all of these elements for cities. And taking that into what it actually means, into actual applications, you will see that we talk about all the different elements of the cities will be impacted in one way or another by a smart solution, by a technology solution, you know, whether it's smart buildings, whether it's traffic management and monitoring, whether it's city services in terms of safety, security, video surveillance, residential, commercial applications, and so on and so forth. But the question is always, are we driven by technology, or are we trying to build cities that are cities and centric cities? The technology is ready, the devices are ready. We know that there are over 10 billion devices by 2019 that are ready for IoT, and they are growing at a very big exponential rate as the years go by. So the idea is that the technology is there, but should we let technology drive us, or should we be more focused on what we need, what the city needs? Any city is an evolving city, it has needs. So we need to know how to apply the right technology to address these needs and to get the best out of it, leave room for innovation, and provide best experiences for citizens. My fellow speaker, Dr. Reem mentioned a few smart cities that were developed that are happening right now in the Arab region. That is the ideal scenario. However, we live in existing cities now, and how can we make the cities that we live in smarter? With funding, of course, funding is always going to be a big issue when we're talking about introducing new systems, introducing new technologies. But the fact is, what we're going to be discussing today is that how are other cities doing it, and what's the approach that's being done? So it's a multi-stakeholder approach. We have the policy makers, we have the private sectors, we have public administration services, citizens and communities, and others. Every city has its assets, its infrastructure, and the activities that it carries out. So that all needs to be looked at by all of these stakeholders. Definitely, we need to be addressing needs. And that's what we have seen, is that in adaptation of smart city practices, it's all about implementing projects that address the needs of a city. So I'll take one very simple example, which is security review surveillance and analysis. And this is potentially the most widely used technologies in all countries. It depends. Some countries deploy it nationwide, some deploy it cities-wide, and some deploy it only to specific high-security areas. But that is essentially IoT. That is, you are deploying a network of cameras that can capture video feeds, that can analyze video feeds, that the complexity that you want, or that you desire, or that you can pay for if you would like, and then get the information, get the alerts, and act accordingly. So it is about the needs at the end of the day. And when the need is there, we have to find the right technology that will match it. So taking my example of the camera security surveillance, it comes also a very big need for smart traffic control. And these systems are already implemented nationwide or city-wide in Bahrain, Dubai, and Saudi Arabia. So we do have a centralized light control system that analyzes and monitors the traffic management and produces congestion alerts for the relative authorities that are in place. And it's also linked, for example, to the ambulances, to the fire departments, to the civil service departments as well, that can all benefit from the feed and the analysis of these cameras on the roads. Again, it's all about addressing needs. During the pandemic, as Rhoda was saying in her introduction, there was a huge jump in providing or introducing IoT solutions. So what we have seen as smart health during the pandemic, a lot of countries included launched apps and wearables for contact tracing, for requesting permits during lockdowns, and using e-vaccination certificates. I've cited a few here. I'm sure there are others. But this was done in a relatively short amount of time to address a very critical need that happened at the time. Private sector as well. Residential, smart apartment with integrated controls and sensors, commercial smart spaces with efficient energy management security, hospitality with smart hotels. Yes, it gives a marketing edge for these real estate developers to implement these technologies. But at the same time, they do get the ROI by the energy saving, by the ease of use of their developments to the clients. So they are addressing a need and they're getting a benefit out of it as well. Smart retail. This might look very futuristic, but in reality, this diagram, we have a lot of things that were implemented because of auger accelerated implementations because of the pandemic. So for example, the mobile point of sales, the digital payments with the NFC payments, the scan and go seamless check counts, the click and collect points, these are currently happening right now in our cities. Maybe a year and a half ago or two years ago, only some implementations, you know, handful of implementations were there. But because of the pandemic, because of the need of more contactless interactions with users and with end users and customers, all of these really were very accelerated and implemented in store technologies. And I'm sure as we go on, we're going to be seeing the rest of these technologies being implemented as well. The challenges of smart cities, as I said, funding an ROI that needs to be demonstrated, whether it's for public sector project or whether it's for private sector project regulations, dealing with legacy infrastructure, changing the mindset, having standardizations for all these new technologies that are emerging. And then the way out of it is basically to collaborate, to create partnerships, public private partnerships with international agencies, harness the powers of entrepreneurs, get them to do new solutions for existing problems, really invest in pilot projects and in lessons learned from these pilot projects, focus on capacity building across the board with all the different stakeholders, access to information on smart projects in the Arab world. This is something that we're lacking. We do not have a central depository of these projects and the lessons learned that that others can benefit from. And then replicating success stories we have in our region, countries that are very similar. So if the certain initiative was successful, why can't it be replicated in a similar environment or situation? Also encourage peer to peer learning and establish platforms for dialogue and network sharing and knowledge sharing and networking, similar to what the ITU is doing and also similar to what we're trying to do on annual basis with the Bahrain Smart Cities Forum. So this concludes my presentation for today. I hope I finished on time and I'll be more than happy to answer any questions. Thank you, sir. Can you hear me? Yes, now we can hear you. Yeah, okay. Thank you so much for this interesting intervention. I will leave the questions and answers to the end of this session. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Sifty. Thank you for your time. For the benefit of most speakers, I'll speak in English as my slides are open. Shall I share my screen? Yeah, yeah, please do. But if you can use the headset because I can hear a noise, let's try. Is this better? Yes. Okay, go ahead. I'll speak louder, sorry. I'll keep it short and sweet. Again, my name is Joara Abassi. I head the main region of the GSMA. And the GSMA for those who do not know it is the association of the mobile industry. We represent all the mobile operators in the world. 750 mobile operator groups are members of the GSMA. We also have 400 companies in the larger mobile ecosystem that are also members of the GSMA. We have 14 offices worldwide, over 500 employees. And we're most known of course for Mobile World Congress Barcelona, Los Angeles and Shanghai. We were back in person in Barcelona in June and the next one would be in October in Los Angeles. And also back to the old schedule of February Mobile World Congress Barcelona. As a start, I'd like to first of all to highlight that we have the GSMA intelligence. So sorry to interrupt you. Dear Mr. Abassi that interpreters, they cannot work with this quality of the sound. Do you have a headset please? I'll try just a second. Give me a second. Okay, yeah, sure, sure. Take your time. I'm sorry about the mix-up. Is this better? Let me check with the interpreters. One, two, three testing. Is this better? Can I please speak more to establish the connection? Thank you. Yes. One, two, three testing. Testing the translation. Speaking from Amman Jordan. One, two, three testing. Sorry, but the quality wasn't improved. It is kind of difficult for interpreters to... But you can hear me. You can hear me, why? If you want to continue in English, it might... Yes, that's why. On the other side, it would be difficult for the other side to translate. You understand because the sound is not clear. But I think most people understand English. So hopefully the ones who don't speak English will forgive me for this technicality. If you don't have any other option, okay, let's do this way. I don't have another option. Sorry, this is the first time I face this problem. I'm sorry. Let's go ahead, sir. Okay, sorry. So the GSMA Intelligence is sort of the think tank of the GSMA. We have a team of analysts that continually look at the mobile industry and the telecommunication markets and non-demarcates and the friends. I advise you to maybe check out the recent reports of the mobile economy in the Middle East and North Africa and the role of wireless backhaul in the Middle East and North Africa. So these are focused on the Arab world in the Middle East and North Africa region. And I'm sure you'll find them with you. They are on the GSMA Intelligence website as well as the GSMA website. Now, smart cities, basically, our projections to start with, we're expecting that IoT smart city connections will triple from 2020 to 2025 from 3 or 7 million to 837 million connections. This is based on the projections of the GSMA Intelligence team. And basically, it is to cater to the massively growing number of smart city initiatives to improve public transportation, to save on energy costs of lighting fees, to also optimize waste collection management, to optimize parking and charging, to also allow users to have a better experience with water and utility bills, and build where nobody needs to check the meter. They can check their daily consumption. They could have the alarm, if they're in the lead, if they're traveling, for example, the smart meter would tell them that there's a need while you're away to advise the maintenance. So it enhances quality of life and it improves the efficiency of living in the cities for the benefit of a better green future and a more efficient utilization of resources. Of course, not a massive section of IoT connections will require mobile network, but quite a bit, in fact, the majority of IoT connections can make use of regular Wi-Fi connections and fixed internet connections and so on. So it depends on the application of the IoT system. You realize whether you want to use the 4G or 2G or 5G network, or whether you can actually use it using your fixed internet or Wi-Fi and so on. So for example, a security camera and more chances are it will use fiber objects and Wi-Fi, but if it's waste management and collection of trash around the city, it's more likely it will probably be best suited to use cellular networks and that's where IoT technology and the license spectrum run on cellular networks is very important. Now, this looks at a lot of smart city initiatives and it's broken down each part to show what was the driver of that initiative. So 62% of the smart city initiatives were part of transformation agenda rather than standalone initiatives. 59% were mandated by headquarters rather than being locally championed. 54% the driver was saving costs rather than 46% generating revenue and 51% to comply with regulations, 49% to do business benefits. So sort of a dichotomy of what is the main reason for a new smart city initiative, but the very good thing is that they are happening for the benefit of users and government alike. There are many issues of a range of challenges happening because of this new technology, big concerns regarding security and data privacy, integrating with legacy, the existing technologies, the course of implementation and sometimes of course the change management and how employees and how users adopt or adapt to the new technology, lack of in-house skills and unclear return on that. I'll share with you now some projections on the total market, the cellular market in the Arab world. By 2020, we had 400 million unique mobile subscribers in the Middle East and North Africa. By 2021, we expect to have quarter of a billion, 250 million 4G connections and 4G connections will overtake 3G to become the dominant technology of connections, 10 million mobile 5G connections by 2022, 500 million smart phone connections by 2023 and 600 million mobile broadband connections by 2024 and we expect the 5G connections in the pioneering Arab markets where 5G has been launched to reach 60 million connections by 2025. This is also the main projections of our GFNA intelligence team and of course we look at also unique subscribers and differentiations by 2025, 68% of all individuals in the Middle East and North Africa region will have mobile services. Now, the mobile economy contribution to the mobile industry contribution to the MENA economy amounted to 244 billion in 2019 and it's contributing around 5.7% of the total GDP of the region which can directly relate it to mobile operators contributing around 1%, rest of the mobile system and then indirect and productivity gain contributing directly. Also the contribution on employment to the mobile ecosystem supports nearly 1 million jobs directly and indirectly across the Middle East and North Africa. Now, we are like the rest of the world. We still project 4G growth to continue alongside 5G. So while we expect 4G to overtake 3G connections, we will be seeing some 3G and 2G switchoffs but for the foreseeable future we will continue to see rapid growth in 4G connections and also on 5G connections especially in the markets that have launched 5G connections already. So 5G networks already. So this is a similar slide. I can share of course the slide with everybody who would like it, just email me through the ITU office. And these are a look at where the 5G networks are active already in the region and we're expecting that the financial impact of 5G in the Middle East and North Africa by 2034 to equal 15.4 billion. So basically an increase of 1.1% in the community in the region is because of the expected launches of more 5G connections, a more 5G network than the rise of 5G connections in the country. And capital expenditure wise by 2025, 5G will account for 85% of capital in MENA because we're expecting a lot more networks to go live by 2025 and of course the roll out of 5G networks especially in dense urban centers and cities where there is an abundance of in the Middle East and North Africa region. This is a region where urbanization is quite high and we have mega cities across the region that definitely are very well suitable for 5G connections and 5G networks. And this looks at the explosive growth of mobile data traffic. So this is gigabyte per subscriber per month. In 2019 the average was 5.6, we projected to increase to 30.2 gigabyte per subscriber per month by 2025. And this is of course happening because of the amazing investment in 4G and 5G connections across the region. And of course now back to the main topic of our discussion is how it will enable a new IoT solution for enterprise consumers. In 2019 there were 492 IoT connections we expected to grow to one billion or more. Enterprise IoT to grow at half compound annual growth rate of 17% between 2019 and 2025 to reach 529 million. Consumer IoT will also exceed the 500 million mark in growing at 3.0 of 10% between 2019 and 2025. So with the subscriber limit really there are massive avenues of using IoT to enhance efficiency and to increase the better utilization of resources in the region and the cellular networks will definitely be a big part of enabling the smart cities that rely on many IoT solutions that are actually intelligent related to IoT solutions. And the final remark I would like to leave with you is that cellular networks did not come about by coincidence. They are years and years in the making of a lot of work, a lot of capital, a lot of money invested. And for the region to still be attractive for investments, more investments in mobile world by network as the primary connectivity method across the world we need to look at technology and neutrality making sure that the spectrum available for operators is technology neutral where they're free to use wherever whether 3G or 4G or 5G or 2G where it's more suitable based on market demand. And net neutrality operators need to be able to manage their network successfully. Net neutrality is not necessarily the best approach for that so there has to be some flexibility on allowing operators to better manage their network. Financial substantive mobile operators require re-examination of the taxation burden whether it's for consumers where demand gets suppressed or on operators either through spectrum costs or through income taxes or revenue shares and their use policies should be allowed by the operators. So these are the main points that as a mobile industry we believe that are needed to continue to keep the attractiveness of investing in mobile world by network alive and to ensure that they are there for humanity to use. So thank you again for your attention. I believe I am within my time. I can share the slides. Just email me as we are back here. I'm happy to share the slides. I apologize for the low quality of the sound. I will double check what the issue was the first time that it happened and maybe there's some setting that has changed and I apologize for that. Thank you for your attention. Thank you. Thank you so much Zawad for your intervention. And I will hand over to the next speaker now Mr. Fadel Ligam. Dr. Fadel Ligam is the president of the national projects for the national device for the organization of communications in the Arab Egyptian Republic and he is the head of the German intelligence in the Middle East. And he has received the IEEE 2021 which is 2021 for the best influence on communication in the last 15 years. Dr. Fadel, please. Is the camera on right now? Yes, we can see you. Okay. Do you have my presentations to share or should I do it myself? Or if you prefer to do it yourself then that's fine otherwise we can present it from our side. Yeah, I think if you can do it from your side it's much easier. Okay. Would you please share the presentation of Mr. Fadel? Just a second, I have a small issue with the presentation. Give me 30 seconds. Okay. I can do it from my side if you want. Would you like me to share it? No, I'll need to do that one second. Okay. Thank you. Thank you all. I'm trying to talk in Arabic and if there is a need for some artistic and technical expressions I'll try to share it in English as well. Simply speaking, what I want to talk about today is the high level of lighting for building a smart city. And this is the high level of lighting for building a smart city. And this is the high level of what is called the Internet of Things and the advanced technologies and the fifth generation. So we'll try to link between this building or this special building of the smart city and the topic of the present or the topic of today's topic. The introduction of the presentation is presented to you. Is this okay right now? Is this better? Is this getting any better? Yes, thank you. Now it's better. The first layer is what is called collection or data collection. Then it has a special layer of communication or connectivity or networking. Therefore what is called platform or platform. Then the last layer is the application layer and the data and the solutions called analytics. On the advanced level this platform is what is studied and applied in the Arab Republic of Egypt in the smart city currently and we started in two cities and there are about 14 other cities as well as the same platform which is in the final presentation about the special issue of the smart city in the second study in the development section under the State of Salat as the main topic for this group. I think that this platform which is studied in Egypt and we would like to share it with the rest of Arab countries is considered a group model for many different studies but I will talk about some main points. First of all for the application specifically for data collection as a result of many differences and the different reports for the nature of data and the interaction with it then it was divided into data collection or interaction of the networks and the network is the open green and the green green and the green green the green green is all that is related to the the living environment and the security and security and so on. All these data are collected through a different layer and a different network that is also collected on a different platform called the platform of control and it is shared here in the word private platform or the specific platform when the rest of the data and information that is dealt with and collected from the city like dealing with the numbers like dealing with the reports and so on all the different applications and some of them are also related to the smart transfer and it is collected on what is called city operation center or city management center and so on there is a lot of information from the internet that contains different data that can be used for this part of the data collection so this is the first point that can be used in the next slide in this slide it is clear that there is a layer or in the specific stage of data collection and you have a group of data that you can deal with the city and there is another group dealing with what is called critical infrastructure or the wild building and there is one of the special components dealing with smart transfer that can be sent to the control center and there are some other data that can be sent to the city operation center and so there are some components that can be sent and collected so it comes from the beginning from the source to collect these data and some of them can be sent through the security network or the other way through the normal network but the security network does not reach the internet in any part of the area this is one of the important areas the next slide please in the next slide here is the communication stage as you can see there is a main area and it is important that we share the connectivity or communication in the city it needs two types a strong network in the main center or what is called the core and it also needs more than the different technical solutions when it is called the network or the access network and so there is a need a strong internal network that connects all the components of the city such as the centrals such as the data centers such as the control center such as the city center then from the other side for the infrastructure we need the technologies which technologies are used through wireless networks they are available and available to a certain level for example the last stage which includes a large number of communication systems it will depend on the wireless technologies whether it is available through different devices or through other solutions it can be used within or within the network limited to the wireless network so here it is another opportunity for the available devices for the wireless phone such as the fifth generation so it will serve the first part we are talking about what is called a network network which is a number of networks with many points and this does not include the available devices even the fourth generation so there is a new addition in the fifth generation such as the power supply and so on it will be in the context of communication points for what is called a network network limited and small so it can provide services for the wireless network for a large number of people so we are trying to show how it can be used in the modern technology through what is called the Internet of Things or what is called the different types of devices the next slide the following slide we will move on to the last application that I want to talk about it is called the platform or the platform this idea is my main goal it was established in the strategy to build a smart city and it is one of the most important in terms of success in making a smart city because simply it provides an official application that deals with the number of applications and data in the past there were always different applications but now there is this exclusive application from what is called the platform this application can provide what is called the Big Data and this is one of the modern technologies that is currently used in the smart city because the collected data for example from the smart numbers and from the smart transfer and from the the smart waiting can complete this data without leaving this application so this application is the main power in the existence of a smart city so it can provide data and it can be called sharing and it can also provide a lot of data to the analytics and then there are many applications that can be distributed and make decisions from the main knowledge for the smart city to be able to manage the smart city and to complete the smart city it needs to complete the data and it needs to make a decision based on different data from different readings and it is not a specific reading but it is a specific application and therefore it is always important with the victory of success that I want to point out that there is what is called the IOT platform the IOT platform which means that it can build a lot of applications and there is a connection between it and each other without the need for a complete distribution and therefore there is what is called like an operating system as well as if I have a different IOT platform it can work with a lot of data and with a lot of applications and therefore the standards and the fact that there is something specific in the IOT platform that is why I would like to share with you the general philosophy of the different applications of the smart city and its strategies with the focus on the idea of the distribution of some of the networks and therefore there is a difference in some of the other data and also the idea of the platform and the platform itself or the platform itself provides this complete and also provides more innovation and this is a very important thing that we are asking for because there are a lot of data available that can be used to build new applications Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Thank you Excuse me? Excuse me? Excuse me? Sir, I have to interrupt you We can hear Arabic and English at the same time Can you please check if you are on the right channel either off or Arabic? Sure, let me Okay Try an Arabic one if you speak Arabic No, I will shift to English now You want to I will shift to English now Okay, then stay on English channel No worries Thank you so much So shifting now to English I would like first to highlight the five main mandates of the TVRA and the UAE which are comprising of the ICT Fund, Regulatory and Insurance Competitiveness of ICT Hector also looking into the digital government transformation issues as well as the cybersecurity issues and the domain part So these mandates contribute to the alignment with the UN SDGs in particular the UN SDG-9 and UN SDG-11 and at a lower level and indirect level to the UN SDGs 4, 8 and 12 And there are some challenges associated locally in the UAE or nationally in the UAE with this alignment and I would mention that for the goal number 9 the main challenge is to stay competitive and also pursue of innovation based economy especially for the SMEs As for the goal number 11 the main challenge is to support the ambitious emergence of developing the urban infrastructure and the UAE especially with the SMEs between among the federal Emirates because the development varies between those Emirates based on their local plans and local circumstances So and the TDRA has focused its role from the policies and regulations since by end of 2019 has developed a national strategy for 5G and beyond for the year 2022-2025 one of the first of its kind in the region in cooperation and coordination with all stakeholders that took place during that year to cover the pillars of network deployment and coverage partnerships and collaboration as well as the third pillar of leading edge technology to support the diverse ecosystem the IOT framework which comprises from the IOT regulatory policy as well as the IOT regulatory procedures aims to develop and regulate in a coordinated and coherent, safe and secure manner of use of the Internet of Things in the United Arab Emirates and secure also the UAE's position as a global leader at the IOT sphere Here from the 5G perspective the structure of the 5G initiative have been restructured starting from this year and we have created clusters to look into the benefits for these clusters we have focused on main clusters one of these main clusters is related to our discussion today which is the smart cities, utilities healthcare and education besides also the other clusters which are complementing the requirements of the bigger picture to establish smart cities and different Emirates of the United Arab Emirates now moving to the objectives of the IOT framework and the UAE is to provide secure IOT services meet all reasonable demands for the IOT services support the innovation manage the scarce resources protect the rights and interests of the users of the IOT and provide also the clarity for IOT market development in the United Arab Emirates Here we are discussing some challenges that are related to the 5G and IOT role for the sustainable and smart cities we can address them into four main challenges which are the multiple and diverse use case use scenarios also the difficulty to implement those networks either IOT or 5G in totality and clear business model for some use cases and also the information silos due to different reasons one of the reasons I mentioned it already about the different interests of the seven local Emirates and also the pace of adoption by the by those local Emirates as well as also the silos the information silos among the entities the federal entities as well as the private sector so the TRA has tried to address all these challenges from different aspects so for the first challenge which is about the implement in totality the TRA tried to TRA made management for these services and also supported the digital and smart convenience according to each area specifically and also industry resources based on the industry resources available this was for the first challenge as for the second challenge I mean the totality the first challenge which is the multiple and diverse case scenarios the regulator have been responsible for the planning for both 5G and IOT with kind of design and also kind of coordinating these activities with different representatives of different clusters in the UAE as for the third challenge which is about the unclear business model the TRA also supported different verticals to invest in the areas of interest by having their business model first identifying their requirements which might be covered by the legacy network identifying those requirements whether they are IMT based or non-IMT based and we have already successful deployment of IOT networks that are using both IMT and non-IMT based in different areas of the United Arab Emirates and as for the fourth challenge here the the TDRA has worked to break the technology and organization silos in order to achieve the interconnectivity among different stake holders and share those data and information and also the resources on the 5G network level there are some efforts now to active share between the two operators and the United Arab Emirates in order to boost the services that are provided to cities and also to the citizens and individuals and we can move to the next stage of the deployment we have to identify the opportunities these opportunities also look into different aspects the economical aspects environment aspect health and care and lifestyle transportation smart transportation the security including information security data security as well as the other parts of security and also the smart education role where it has been obvious during the last year where we have passed through the difficulty of pandemic and the 5G and IOT and also the previous legacy network of the international mobile telecommunication played a vital role to provide connectivity to different aspects of the users so by this I'd like to conclude my presentation and I apologize for the short time I wanted to give more information however I would be pleased to provide you with any answers to the questions provided later on thank you so much thank you so much Sultan for this interesting presentation actually we don't have much time but I would like to give the opportunity for the audience to pose some questions if they like they can post it on the chat or in their hands in order to ask questions to panellists okay I can see there is a question from the chat question is since this and emerging and the cross cutting field how the engagement of different sectors and fields were made and who supervise in order to enforce the regulation compliance and privacy security I don't know who will answer the question from the panellist who would like to answer this question okay but to turn on the video please yes maybe I can ask maybe Dr. Fadil to answer this question can you hear me maybe Sultan could you please answer this question I couldn't hear the question can you just repeat it okay would you like me to repeat the question since this is an emerging and the cross cutting field how the engagement of different sectors and fields were made and who supervise in order to enforce the regulation compliance and privacy security I believe this is the main role of the regulator for both the telecommunications part as well as also the cybersecurity part to ensure this compliance with the regulations and health for example in the UAE we should trust the IOT the IOT regulatory policy then it was followed by the IOT regulatory procedures where those procedures identified the roles and also the compliance requirements for each of the parties within the implementation ecosystem so I believe that the regulators in some countries because the regulator for cybersecurity is different than the regulator of the ICT sector but the case in the UAE we are handling both so the the TRA is following those procedures and following these policies to ensure this compliance and to ensure also smooth introduction of technologies of IOT based technologies based on the requirements addressed thank you Thank you very much for your answer actually if we have just 5 minutes I would like to ask some questions to our speakers so the question that can be asked to Dr. Reem that is related to the introduction let me despite the fact that intelligence we have a lot of issues related to the preparation of sleep so the use or the present sleep so the use of technology with the information of intelligence can be a lot of fears so what do you think in this case Dr. Reem it seems that Dr. Reem heard the question Mr. Dan what is the best way to deal with challenges in the Arab region thank you I think the best way is we have a clear way to the regulations the laws the regulations do you hear me do you hear me is it a question that you asked me do you hear me please ok Dr. Reem can you hear me now excuse me excuse me Mrs. Dan yes please proceed with your answer please Dan ok thank you for the question ok ok please go ahead Dr. Reem ok ok please go ahead ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok and we need to use it in a specific way. After that, we need to be in, as we talked about, we need to be in cooperation, and we need to be in knowledge sharing and use it in learning, in the applications, in the projects that apply this technology between the Arab countries. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much for this interesting question. It's true that today, smart cities are not as ideal as they have been presented. So it's true that smart cities offer a lot of opportunities in the future, and we need to use them in a specific way. So it's true that smart cities offer a set of solutions to the problem of protection, of the environment, of adaptation to climate change, the development of ethics raises several questions and concerns that exist today. And really, it's a fact. Today, fear is a loss of individual freedom and the preservation of private life. Today, who will be part of the collected data used for commercial purposes? Today, it's a fear. It's a real fear. There is another point. So today, the risk of emerging of new forms of exclusion linked to non-access to TIC. Today, we can have economic, cultural exclusions but also in relation to age. Because when we know it very well, today, young people use smart phones better. So we can face a problem linked to age. Another point today is the lack of appropriation of new devices for users. For some cases, we may need 5G computers, etc. Another very important point is the financing of the functioning of new services. Consequently, the economic model of the smart city. What economic model will we use? And one last point is the vulnerability of networks facing the defiance of security and technology. So all of this is an existing concern to which there is a lot of work and reflection and how to find solutions in relation to that. I hope I answered your question. Yes, thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. Sayed Jawad, do you have any questions about how the GSMA can help in the development of smart cities? Thank you very much. The GSMA has quite a few working groups that focus on looking at the security, the same security, also propagation of services related to vulnerabilities, so sharing vulnerabilities between operators. So we have actually, I believe, three or four working groups focused on that. The primary approach to it is coordination between the operators and vulnerabilities and also engagement with all stakeholders on how to improve cybersecurity and security. It should be related to same and eastern security as well as the vulnerability disclosure between all operators to make sure that vulnerable operators, wherever we find a certain vulnerability that can be utilized by vicious players, that can be communicated to all networks that have that vulnerability to fix it and to make sure that it's not utilized wrongly by the users. Thank you so much, Zawad, for your answer. Actually, I know that we are behind the time, but I would like to thank the interpreters and ask them to do, they can release because the time booked for them is done, but I can proceed to wrap up quickly. It's a very interesting discussion and I would like to ask Dr. Fadir Dr. Fadir if we can to any extent the important thing is that we can reduce the risk of the spread of information, the spread of information, the spread of open information, the spread of all information in a smart way. Go ahead. Thank you all. I think this point is very important and I always say that the current smart city is the city of development. Therefore, it is not a single city. Therefore, from its example, we have a music that can be heard in the social media. Sorry to interrupt you, but I think we don't have any more interpretation. Can you please continue in English? Yes, the point is there are different enabling policy directions. One of them is to allow this kind of open platform to be able really to avail data to different people to continue developing the city itself. Second, regulators should in cooperation with other agencies in the country to provide some sort of data manipulation guidelines, which are classified. All data are classified, which is classified, which can be processed and just to give some ideas of it. Some way of handling and manipulating data should be in place. Third one, there was an initiative we did in Egypt. We formed what's called IOT Forum, in which we were able to find and to bring everyone to the table. So we need regulators. We need industry representatives. We need the legal. We need the people from the market so that everyone can really talk about their needs and their pains so that we can find the right technical and legislation framework that boosts such developments in each country. Thank you. Thank you very much, Dr. Fadel and the last question is addressed to Mr. Sultan in your opinion. What is the key success factors for using 5G and IOT capabilities for enabling the smart and sustainable city? I think the key success factors are the collaboration between Dr. Fadel that there should be a platform that hosts all the interests from technical point of view, legal point of view even business point of view and regulatory point of view. This would be the key factor in order to enable a successful implementation of 5G networks and IOT to enable the smart and sustainable cities. Thank you so much. I thank all my distinguished panagists for this session. Very interesting discussions actually and very structured presentations. I thank you all. I thank the audience and I just wanted to wrap up quickly regarding the topics covered during this session. Actually the panagists take the urbanization trends in the Arab countries, the growth and challenges, what are the IOT the use of IOT as catalyst for smart cities, the 5G's opportunities for smart cities and what are the role of telecom operators in smart cities projects some of them provided overview of the efforts made by their organizations in context of smart cities they provided examples of smart cities initiatives in some Arab countries they have, they propose some recommendations and proposals for the Arab region also they taken the importance of looking at the needs in order to harness the technologies for making the smart cities more having more prospects for the population and maybe the last issue is regarding the regulatory frameworks and how the IOT structures and the emerging technology structures could reflect on the structure of the smart cities and the importance of the integration and the innovation in terms of the technology and the data handling the IOT we have intervention regarding the solutions developed by United Arab Emirates and Tunisia and the regulatory frameworks they applied on this also they taken the importance of the cooperation among all the involved stakeholders in order to make the deployment of the IOT and 5G and to enable the smart and sustainable cities I thank you all for your patience to stay with us for 15 minutes and I would like to thank you all for your participation and looking forward to future sessions on this topic thank you all and now I conclude this session thank you all, thank you to all colleagues also who support this session provided the needed support for everyone even for us and for speakers and audience thank you all thank you so much, I'm going to close the virtual room have a nice afternoon