Information Technologies and Communication Authority President Ömer Abdullah Karagözoğlu spoke about the importance of 5G at the 4th Public Informatics Summit.
The "4th Public Informatics Summit," organized by the Public Informatics Association, began in Antalya. In his speech at the opening of the program, BTK President Ömer Abdullah Karagözoğlu emphasized the importance of Turkey, which aims to reach the level of contemporary civilizations, following and utilizing developments in the field of information and communication technologies.
Pointing out that the use of informatics technologies has become a necessity today for the public sector to perform its duties effectively and efficiently, Karagözoğlu indicated that the informatics sector contributes to effective service delivery with time and cost savings.
Stating that the Presidential Government System has ended the sluggishness in bureaucracy, Karagözoğlu emphasized that the widespread use of e-government services also facilitates the lives of citizens receiving services from the public.
President Karagözoğlu: We Are Creating Fertile Ground for Technologies to Follow 5G
Providing information that their work on 5G is one of the steps taken in domestic and national production, Karagözoğlu said the following:
"5G is a technology platform developed based on the concept of connecting people, objects, transportation, health, homes, cities—everything—with high speed and capacity everywhere, with minimal interruption and delay. The 'beyond' part of the 5G and beyond concept has two different meanings for us. While developing domestic and national 5G, we are preparing fertile ground for next-generation technologies that will follow 5G, and we are providing the necessary contributions to vertical sectors that will benefit from 5G. There are some accepted facts about 5G that the whole world now embraces. One of them is that it will change business models. In 5G, the primary source for operators will not be end-users but sectors such as energy, health, and automotive that are served. In recent years, we see all major automotive companies advertising autonomous driving. These autonomous driving technologies require data to be transmitted at speeds we can call instantaneous."
Stating that they counter cyber attacks through the National Cyber Incident Response Center (USOM) under BTK, Karagözoğlu noted that Turkey is protected against cyber attacks in coordination with more than a thousand teams established in relevant institutions and organizations, with 3 thousand cyber security experts on duty.
President Karagözoğlu: We Prevented the 'WannaCry' Attack Coming from America
Karagözoğlu gave the example: "One of the attacks we prevented is the 'WannaCry' attack. Dozens of malware developed by the U.S. National Security Agency were served to the internet by a hacker group. USOM shared the measures to be taken against the vulnerabilities in this malware, and the vulnerabilities in the systems were closed. Turkey was one of the countries least affected by this attack."
Emphasizing that USOM conducts its 7-24 operations with software it produces using its own resources to counter attacks, Karagözoğlu stated that providing cyber security with domestic and national resources is one of the most sensitive points.
Karagözoğlu added that the number of users of the safe internet service provided free of charge by BTK has also exceeded 6.5 million.