Our objective is to create impact beyond just simple Internet. Our long-term aim is to create an intelligent world; a world built on enhanced connectivity. This demands extensive availability of digital infrastructure—mobile, fixed-line, and cloud—and it requires extensive digital space and security to support the billions of connections that are happening before our eyes.

In a digital world, ultra-broadband networks are the most important infrastructure for communities and businesses, and it is fixed-line, fiber networks as well as intelligent cloud-based capabilities leveraging the power of IPv6 and the new cloud business models, that will provide the foundation for our society to thrive in the digitally-driven future.

However, with “Gigabit society” concept already under implementation in developed countries, for instance in Europe, and because we want the markets of this region to come at par with digital transformation achieved in those markets, it is important to promptly plant the seeds for the 10 Gigabit society concept here in the region for accelerating development of advanced digital infrastructure of the next decade.

Given investments made in 5G and with ultra-broadband networks already booming in the region, it is critical to take stock of what is needed to accelerate ultra-broadband, i.e., 10 Gigabit network, development in the region.

Some fundamental questions to address in the Policy to Action panel include:

1. What are the strategic driving forces for Gigabit networking in the region, and how can the same drivers help accelerate move toward 10 Gigabit development?
2. What are the anticipated challenges encountered during the implementation of the 10Gigabit digital infrastructure?
3. In view of regulation, business requirements, stakeholder needs, and end-user expectations, how can such challenges be overcome?
4. What are the policy requirements to be able to shift to the 10 Gigabit infrastructure?
5. How important is this digital infrastructure shift to the region’s digital economy, and to the overarching sustainable development goals (SDGs), to which regional governments are signatories?

**Other questions may arise for Media through coordination of esteemed Moderator and Panelists**

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