Transcript WSIS FORUM 2009 ITU-T

ITU-T:
Empowering global ICT
development
Simão Campos
Counsellor, ITU-T Study Group 16
“Multimedia”
WSIS FORUM 2009
International
Telecommunication
Union
ITU-T
ITU-T Recommendations (=technical
standards) are defining elements in
information and communication technology
(ICT) infrastructure
Whether we exchange voice, data or video
messages, communications cannot take place
without standards linking the sender and the
receiver
Today’s work extends well beyond the
traditional areas of telephony to encompass a
far wider range of information and
communications technologies
ITU-T Structure
Workshops,
Seminars,
Symposia…
WTSA
World Telecommunication
Standardization Assembly
Telecommunication Standardization
Advisory Group
Focus
Group
s
SG
Working Party
Q
QQ
Study Group
WP
Q
WP
QQ
WP
SG
IPR
ad hoc
Focus
Group
Questions: Develop Recommendations
Highlights of current activities (1/4)
Climate Change
Power saving checklist for standards authors
ITU Symposia on ICTs and Climate Change: London, Kyoto;
two more planned for 2009 (Quito/July & Seoul/Sep).
Focus Group concluded, ITU-T Study Group 5 will take the lead
Accessibility for persons with disabilities
Checklist for standards authors
Recs for real-time text telephony, total conversation, etc
Workshops
Joint Coordination Activity on accessibility and human factors
Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability (IGF)
Emergency Telecoms
Rec: Language independent prefix for emergency numbers
Rec: Child helpline
Rec: Call prioritization, alerts
Highlights of current activities (2/2)
Cybersecurity
Recs giving: Definition of cybersecurity; a
standardized way for vendors to supply security
updates and guidelines on spyware; toolbox of
technical measures to counter spam.
Identity management: Draft Recommendations
ongoing on data model, interoperable framework,
interchange framework, and entity authentication
assurance, requirements
NGN
Work progressing rapidly in ITU
Recs: requirements, architecture, OAM, signalling
protocols, resource control, NNI signalling, NGN
testing, and security
Highlights of current activities (3/4)
IPTV: Proceedings of IPTV FG collected. First
Recs. approved.
Video coding and next generation multimedia
conferencing
Broadband access, packet based transport,
optical transport and access
Interoperability & conformance testing (Res.76)
Bridging the standardization gap
Regional forums
Remote participation
Highlights of current activities (4/4)
Academia initiative: Kaleidoscope peer-reviewed academic
conferences
Technology Watch briefing reports: the future Internet, grid
computing, climate change, lawful interception, remote
collaboration tools, telepresence, USN, CALM, etc
Workshops and seminars in the regions within a wider
program set up to bridge the standardization gap
Assist developing countries in establishing regional or sub
regional conformity and interoperability centres and in
identifying human and institutional capacity-building and
training opportunities in conformity and interoperability
testing
Free ITU-T Recommendations
 very popular
Snapshot of ITU-T Membership
191 Member States
300 Sector Members
125 Associates
Region
Africa
Private sector
Private sector - Contributory Units
4.16
Asia Pacific
41.04
Arab States
17.16
Europe and CIS
54.34
Americas
58.66
Some recent and upcoming workshops
ITU-T Workshop on "New challenges for
Telecommunication Security Standardizations, Geneva,
Switzerland, 9-10 February 2009
The Fully Networked Car Workshop - Workshop on
ICTs in Motor Vehicles, PALEXPO, Geneva, Switzerland, 45 March 2009
Forum on Next Generation Network Standardization,
Colombo, Sri Lanka, 7-10 April 2009
Forum on "Implementation of decisions of the World
Telecommunication Standardization Assembly-08
(WTSA-08)" Accra, Ghana, 16-17 June 2009
ITU Symposium on ICTs and Climate Change, Quito,
Ecuador, 8-10 July 2009
Kaleidoscope event: Innovations for Digital Inclusion,
Mar del Plata, Argentina, 31 August – 1 September 2009
Workshop on Accessibility: Planned in Bamako, Mali,
13-15 Oct 2009 (TBC)
Technology Watch
Technology Watch surveys the ICT environment for new
study topics
Technology Watch Briefing Reports provide an up-to-date
assessment of promising new technologies. Recent papers:
The Future Internet
Distributed Computing: Utilities, Grids & Clouds
Intelligent Transport Systems
NGNs and energy efficiency
Lawful Interception (LI)
Remote collaboration tools
Ubiquitous Sensor Networks
ICTs and Climate Change
Telepresence
Intelligent Transport Systems / CALM
Under study: speech technology; networked robotics;
e-health
Kaleidoscope 2008
Innovations in NGN
Part of initiative to increase dialogue between academia/ITU
Aim to identify new topics for standardization
Geneva, 12-13 May: 220 participants
Organized with IEEE CommSoc as Technical Co-sponsor and
supported by Cisco, Intel, the International Communications
Foundation of Japan and Sun Microsystems.
Over 140 papers submitted: 53 papers were presented
The best three were awarded prizes totaling $10,000 kindly
donated by Cisco.
Included in a future special edition of the IEEE
Communications Magazine.
16 entrants received a Young Author
Recognition Certificate
Kaleidoscope 2009
Innovations for Digital Inclusion
Mar del Plata, 31 Aug – 1 Sep 2009
Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications
Society
83 paper proposals, 20 Lecture papers and 16 poster
papers selected
Peer-reviewed by 80+ subject-matter experts
Prize fund for three best papers
10 nominees
Proceedings published in IEEE Explore
Strategic direction
Truly global public/private partnership  key strength
95% of work is done by private sector
Continuously adapting to market needs
Strong engagement with academia & research organizations
Academia initiative & Kaleidoscope events
Striving for stronger participation from developing countries
Remote participation; Regional forums on bridging the
standardization gap
“ITU inside” concept: Mark to show conformance to ITU-T Recs.
Workshop programme attracts diverse audience, initiates new
work
Consensus driven, open process
Very flexible
Fast, transparent procedures
Start work: 1 day / few weeks
Develop work: weeks to 2-3 yrs
Approve work: average 2 months
AAP for technical standards (= 95% of work)
Common IPR Policy: ITU-T, ITU-R, ISO, IEC
Challenges
To continue to reflect needs of the market
Proliferation of industry forums: 300+ !
Increase participation especially from
developing countries
Figure for percentage reduction of power
consumption in broadband technologies.
Agreed figure to form part of a Resolution
from the upcoming WTSA-08.
Improve efficiency, appeal and convenience to
members
Why participate?
Only UN agency dealing with ICT standards
Outreach to 191 countries
High credibility in emerging markets especially Africa,
China and more recently India
Opportunities for exercising corporate social responsibilities
Excellent meeting facilities, convenient location
Open, transparent and flexible
Fast working – moves at the speed of industry
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