Improving Information and Communication Technology to Innovate the Paradigms of World Progress -Part 3-

The paper analyses the evolutions and the role of information and communication technology (ICT), as the most powerful instrument of spreading information/knowledge across the Earth, crucial in refining knowledge, in the actual World crises context. Our opinion and intention are to leverage the perception of the continuously increasing importance and complexity, of using, or not, the right meanings of the fast changes of World, in order to determine, by individual and collective understanding, the new data/information potential implications, along with the necessary actions which could bring benefic results every day, providing the sustainable progress and eventually saving the life on Earth. One of the most relevant examples of the ICT mentioned potential is actually given by its implementation in the evolution of 5G mobile communication systems [1], apparently just mobile telephony, but now offering a plethora of services which globally also spread knowledge. Among 5G new challenges, some issues remain to be approached and solved, with direct impact on security issues, where we notice the vulnerabilities in software components and virtualized network functions, along with user privacy, environmental sustainability, interoperability or cyber threats. To address these challenges and more, the technical solutions should include some complicate innovations and processes (like energy optimization, scalability and flexibility, single-channel utilization for both uplink and downlink, handling interference, environmental sustainability, low latency, high reliability, network performance optimization, economic impacts, high mobility, handover, and self-healing infrastructures). In this new World context, telco could use the last advances of AI to mitigate, at least some of the emergent operational challenges, as confirmed in another analysed example from [2]. A more detailed analysis of sustainably using AI for telcos actual innovations/development challenges, based on the relevant example from [4], showed that these should be approached by scaling AI implementation in a step-by-step process. In the Data Deluge we live in, we consider that its holistic approach is also mandatory, as it is already confirmed by [5], where we meet the fourth paradigm of science, i.e., the actual reality we have to understand and promote, if we want to globally and plenty benefit from the huge potential the humankind history achieved, especially recently. Analysing the safety and sustainability of ICT innovations/development, we approached autonomous systems (ASs), along with AI/ICT and HI synergy, as it is also presented, in details by [7]. We concluded that AS analysis has to be considered in the World larger context (beyond cars etc), as, by the new safety-related systems we have to eventually see in both space and time, what our Earth will become, a place crowded by (automated) critical infrastructures, systems and devices, ruled by ICT, where individuals lives and Planet future are more and more depended of reliability and hazard. For these AS crucial decision processes where ICT advances are deeply implied and ask knowledge refining, the above aspects and premises are just the entry levels or tips of the iceberg which we should consider for innovation and sustainable World progress and consequently need further and timely analyses, on diverse planes and criteria.