2019 is the year of 5G —Akano, New Horizons boss

2019 has been declared as the global 5G year. This prediction was made by Mr Tim Akano, the Founder/Chief Executive Officer of New Horizons Nigeria, saying his position was predicated on events that are taking place in the technology industry lately. Previous years, he said, have witnessed robots doing amazing things like casting news, singing, acquiring citizenship and getting married through Artificial Intelligence (AI).

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According to him, aside this, the end of 2018 saw Finland and South Korea testing 5G technology to an awesome outcome leading him to proclaim this year as the global acceptance for the 5G technology.

Furthermore, he said, “A friend of mine put it poetically in an article recently in a newspaper ‘How technology stole our breakfast and is about to eat our lunch.’ But I disagree with his conclusion.

“Technology did not steal anybody’s breakfast, rather technology changed our breakfast menu and gave us a new breakfast menu and technology has equally announced that a new lunch and dinner menu list is on the horizon.

“Besides, 5G will open itself up to a wider range of attacks on the surface since it uses virtualisation and Internet of Things (IoT). Cyber security will become a major cost for telecoms companies in 2019 and beyond.

“And both the breakfast and lunch of telecoms will continue to end up in the stomach of affordable social media platforms. My message in 2019 is: innovate fast or face sudden death,” he said.

More so, he noted that the fact that people will be left jobless by the advent of 5G but more new jobs will be provided by the same. “Most of the professional skills we have today will be obsolete in three to five years but more skills will grow in demand.

“Skills like Analytical Reasoning, Adaptability, Cyber Security, AI and IoT, People and Time Management, Mobile Application Development, Sales Leadership, Digital and Social Media Marketing, Animation Development, Business Analytics, and Data Science will take over the world with 5G,” he said.

In the bid to prepare Nigeria for this advent, he stated that New Horizons Nigeria has succeeded in introducing ICT certification- based training into the Nigerian curriculum.

Also, the company produces about 50,000 students yearly under the certification programme.

Backing this, Akano said, “Our determination has always been our driving force. This is why we are the first company to launch a Comprehensive Robotics Education in High Schools, which includes curriculum on 3D print technology, Ai, IoT, Big Data, Cyber Security, and Graphics Design among others.

“This will make our children acquire 2019 ICT skills that will make them to be competitive globally,” he added.