CTS 2020: How 5G and AI can help jumpstart our post-pandemic economy

By Lynn Greiner LIKE VIRTUALLY EVERY COUNTRY in the world, Canada is facing the need to jumpstart its economy to help it recover from the global pandemic. At the Canadian Telecom Summit last week, an international panel of experts looked at the role of AI, blockchain, and 5G in helping countries flourish. Dr. Thomas Könen, head of the Department for Digitalisation and Innovation with the Federal Association of German Industry, presented the German perspective, much of which may well sound familiar to Canadians. "Because of the speed of technological development, we are experiencing a problem here – the regulators and...