Sectors
Education
Education establishments are now leveraging ICT advances to enhance the student learning experience.
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Digital dependencies features strongly in this competitive landscape and brings with it the challenges in the higher education ecosystem. An increase demand from students and teachers to enable secure use of multiple devices per user is now the normal way of learning. As we become more technologically advanced it's vital and a necessity to provide students with the right skills they will need later on in life.
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Strategic plans will demand more creativity and innovative capacity of the institution to be harnessed throughout the business planning process. To add greater awareness ensure that the creativity of the academic community is used to maximise the value of the plans which get created. A need for universities is to consider collaborative ways of working differently and engage the organisation in more pro-active ways.
Government
Government services in place today have evolved over a long period of time and has had to think of itself in a different way - single entity, one whole government.
A cross-government view on everything they do requires a service to bind this all together - GDS (Government Digital Service) exists to help this happen transforming the relationship between citizen and state: making it easy to deal with government, safely and securely. In time services will shape government, not the opposite - new technology and platforms will put the users first, influence agile ways of working making data easier to use.
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More smaller, multidisciplinary teams working in short bursts moving projects from discovery to live. GDS plays a role to guide, advise demonstrate and consult - were here to help make the government work this way - not by doing digital, but by being digital.
Telecommunications
“New research from Which? finds that 9 in 10 people think a broadband connection is essential to their everyday life alongside other essentials such as food, housing and utilities like water and energy.” A Universal Service Obligation!
Telecommunication providers and customers need to be mindful of important emerging developments that continues to be a critical force for growth, innovation and disruption across multiple industries across it's ecosystem: 5G mobile technology platforms will form the foundation for IOT applications - the connected car and as far beyond to the connected consumer to name a few. SD WAN adding simplicity taking advantage of broadband connections instead of depending on private networks which lowers IT operational costs and increases performance and agility.
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Each of these will dramatically broaden the reach of wireless for consumers and businesses. Essentially, security and privacy are key considerations for anyone in the telecom bubble and an opportunity for businesses and their consumers become educated on the benefits of secure and scalable network solutions.