Chennai: Key advances in 5G Technology in India and abroad and their practical applications were deliberated in a three-day conference organised by the Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing (IIITDM), Kancheepuram.
The fourth edition of the Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT) was hosted from 3-5 December, a release from IIITDM said on Monday.
The CICT provided a forum to present and exchange ideas in the latest technological advancements and innovations in the field of ICT. tion.
In his address on ‘5G and the Internet of Skills,’ Prof Mischa Dohler, Chair Professor of Wireless Communications,
King’s College, London, said, “the Internet after we are done with fixed Mobile Internet and Internet of Things will be the Skills Internet where we would be able to transmit skills through the internet.”
“How would this be possible? 20-30 years ago, if someone had said that you would be able to listen to music and watch movies on your mobile phone streaming them, they would have said ‘you are crazy.’ Therefore, it is not unthinkable that in a few years’ time, we will have Internet of Skills up and running,” he said.
The ‘Internet of Skills’ would be an enabler for remote skillset delivery and thereby democratise labour globally the same way the Internet had democratised knowledge.