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    ICT Trends

    Digital Healthcare | Mobile Payment | Assistive Technologies | Internet of Things


    (IoT) 5th Generation Mobile Networks (5G) | Artificial Intelligence and Machine
    Learning Blockchain and Shared Ledgers | 3D Printing

    5TH GENERATION
    MOBILE NETWORKS (5G)

    DIGITAL BLOCKCHAIN AND


    HEALTHCARE SHARED LEDGERS

    MOBILE 3D
    PAYMENT ICT Trends
    PRINTING

    INTERNET OF ASSISTIVE
    THINGS (IOT) TECHNOLOGIES

    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND


    MACHINE LEARNING
    Measuring Emerging
    ICT Trends
    What are the characteristics that qualify a given
    technology as “an emerging Technology”?
    The result is the delineation of five key attributes that
    qualify a technology as emerging. These are: (i)
    radical novelty, (ii) relatively fast growth, (iii)
    coherence, (iv) prominent impact, and (v)
    uncertainty and ambiguity.
    i) Radical novelty: Meaning the Technology
    fulfills a given function using a different
    basic principle as compared to what was
    previously used before to achieve a similar
    purpose.
    ii) Relatively fast growth: a given technology
    when developed and introduced is embraced
    for use to achieve a given purpose.
    iii) Coherence: Persistence of a given
    technology that has acquired a certain level
    of identity among users is often different
    from those still in a state of flux and therefore
    not emerging.
    iv) Prominent impact: Emerging technologies
    tend to exert notable prospects on specific
    domains or more broadly socio-economic
    systems by changing the composition of
    actors, institutions, patterns of interaction
    among others.
    v) Uncertainty and ambiguity: Emerging
    technologies are characterized by uncertainty
    in the outcomes and uses which may be
    unintended and undesirable, as well as
    ambiguity in meanings different that different
    social groups associate with a given
    technology

    Emerging technologies today include but are not


    limited to;
     Artificial Intelligence (AI)
     Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
     Internet of things (IoT)
     Cyber security (Digital trust); this remains a high
    technology as long as there are hackers and thus
    the need.
     Quantum Computing
     Extended reality; This encompasses Virtual
    Reality(VR),Augmented Reality(AR) and Mixed
    Reality (MR)
     Blockchain.
     Big Data and Analytics
     5G / Wifi 6
     Edge Computing-cloud computing
     Metaverse
     3D printing….etc
    Health tech trends in 2023;

    • Mobile Health. In Uganda it’s being used to improve access to healthcare in rural areas
    where there are few health facilities. This Technology allows patients to receive medical
    advice and treatment remotely through their mobile phones. E.g The Uganda Health
    Information Network (UHIN) provides health information and advice to users through
    SMS messages.
    • Electronic medical records.
    • Telemedicine & Telehealth;
    • AI in health care; this help physicians in diagnosis and monitoring. AI makes health
    prediction more accurate and patient monitoring more manageable.
    AI is used in drug discovery, medical imagery such as X-rays among others.
    • Internet of medical Things (Health wearables); IOT devices connect patients and
    physicians providing real time data on the patient’s condition. This enables remote patient
    monitoring and virtual care.
    • Data care and interoperability among health organizations; The Uganda Health
    Information systems (HIS) are being used to collect, analyze and disseminate health
    records. It provides real time health data to health officials allowing for better decision
    making and planning

    • Cyber security and data breach prevention; this is crucial to prevent misuse of patients’
    data
    • Virtual reality and augmented reality in health care; VR is helping therapy patients move
    in space even if they are at home. The experience makes the process likeable.
    • Digital twins Used in the medical labs;
    • Telecare e.g digital therapeutics (DTx),
    • 3D printing in healthcare
    etc

    Guiding qns.
    1) Explain the different emerging technologies in the Health sector today

    2) Describe the potential impact of AI on health sector

    Potential impact of ICTs


    ICTs are neither good nor bad …

    • Effects of unfolding digital transformations are not


    yet fully known
    • Advanced ICTs promise
    enormous benefits for
    Sustainable Development
    Goals (SDGs) and human rights,
    including
    o Smart agriculture, smart cities, environmental
    stewardship
    o Individual empowerment, better government,
    improved education
    • They also bring new challenges and potential risks
    o Replacement of human labor by robots and
    artificial intelligence
    o Next-generation digital divides, ambiguous effects
    on income inequality
    o Surveillance and control by supposed
    “technologies of freedom”
    • Policy appropriate to national conditions is
    critical (there is no single “best model”) and
    dependent on reliable indicators

    … they need the right policy conditions

    • Network infrastructure
    o Availability of fixed and mobile broadband, smart

    devices
    o National and international bandwidth, data centers

    o Differentiated infrastructure quality of service

    (speed, latency, jitter)


    • All-IP seamless connectivity
    Fixed and mobile broadband, LPWANs, NB-IoT,
    LTE-M
    • Complementary user skills
    o Digitally literate workforce, data scientists,

    computer scientists
    o Increasingly powerful software empowers users
    with appropriate skills and mindset
    • Policy responses that enable digital
    entrepreneurship and innovation
    o Differentiated based on assessment of national

    strengths and deficits


    o Based on good statistical evidence and models

    (stimulation, foresight)

    Knowledge for sustainable development

     The power of emerging technologies


    is best harnessed using a human-
    centered design approach
     Requires reliable and continuously updated
    information
     Agreed conventions on data definitions and
    measurement
     Improved accessibility of data to users and
    entrepreneurs
     Machine-generated data collection and processing
     Harvesting of data directly form the digital
    infrastructure and services
     Networks or sensors and devices could generate
    trusted database
     Roles for the public sector and intergovernmental
    organizations
     Collector of critical, standardized information that
    is of broad importance
     Facilitator of data collection (open algorithms) and
    availability (open data)
     Curator and archiver of data and analytical models
    (open repositories)

    Hint; Rising ICTs are tagged to SDGs 2030

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