Colombia. The Francisco José de Caldas District University became the first educational institution in the country to apply 5G technology in the development of its classes, thanks to the will of the private company, in the case of the mobile phone companies, Wom and Huawei, who have successfully leveraged this pilot, with a view to closing the digital gaps in Colombia.
According to the president of Wom, Ramiro Lafarga, it is relevant for the company to work the connectivity of Colombians, in addition to emphasizing their efforts in the spectrum of education, for this reason, they have chosen the District University.
"We've found a very good actor to partner with. For us, being at the District University is very important because it talks about inclusion, it talks about how this is affordable to many Colombians and Wom's focus also has to do with that," said the executive.
For his part, the rector Giovanny Tarazona, spoke of how the Institution has participated in the implementation of great technological advances for the territory and affirmed that the project "is an effort where the transformation in our spearhead, telecommunications, is viable".
"For us it is absolutely significant to continue transforming, building and showing that the District University is decisive in these processes of articulation that makes the state, the district, the nation, the companies and of course the University," said the rector.
The engineer Luz Esperanza Bohórquez, dean of the Faculty of Engineering, mentioned that the company Wom has requested the use of the spectrum to carry out the pilot that will be available for a few months in the Faculty, since it must be specified that 5G technology has not yet been implemented in the country, in fact, until the end of the year the management of its use in the national territory will be carried out.
"5G will allow us as a faculty, as an academy, as a university, to begin to explore the different, incorporation alternatives, technology in curriculum development, to see how we strengthen more the issue of connectivity, virtualization of education, that is why regionalization is one of the bets that are held at the institutional level. Having 5G technology is opening the spectrum to the possibilities of technological development," said the dean.
This technology allows access to education remotely, with the possibility of entering the virtual spectrum, from anywhere, to know first-hand the detail of the operations related to engineering that are applied in the District University. This translates into an expansion of the educational offer in the regions, one of the purposes of the Institution.
Professor Jorge Alexander Alarcón, coordinator of Electrical Engineering, carried out the pilot test and guided students, professors and the public, in the exploration of an energy generator, a possibility that breaks the barriers of space and opens the way to integral knowledge.
Huawei President Ruibin Wang mentioned that in the last five years 5G technology has evolved very fast and today can provide five times faster speeds transforming society. He also commented that this development brings new innovations for education, since it can be present in various scenarios. In short, "5G has the ability to expand the educational universe".
Text published by the news agency of the District University.
