Transcript ETSI Technical and Economic Drivers for Convergence Karl Heinz

Well Comms in Tuxtla
Broadband access for health applications
A workshop co-organized by ETSI y el Secretaria de Salud de Mexico
in Tuxtla, Chiapas, 18-19 May 2006
ETSI, the @LIS Dialogue on Standards
Why we are here today
Margot Dor, Business Development & Partnerships, ETSI
[email protected]
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ETSI: A Standardization Success Story
 ETSI since its creation in 1988 has established itself
in a relatively short time as a premier multinational SDO
 ETSI success is based on the development market-driven
open standards that:
– enable interoperability
– expand markets, bring down costs
and enable increased competition
– create trust and confidence in products
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ETSI, who are we exactly?
 ICT Standards organization, private not for profit
 Global membership (670+ Members, 80% industry, 20% overseas)
 Track record of worldwide industrial hits (fixed, mobile, broadcast)…
 …enabled also by a recognized IPR policy (FRAND)
 Favors partnerships (regional/technical)
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Founding partner and home of the 3GPP
(EU/US/China/Japan/Korea)
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Broadcast (EBU/CLC)
 Interoperability services (test specs, test suites, interop testing”PlugTests”)
 Forum hosting
 All deliverables available free of charge
http://www.etsi.org
http://portal.etsi.org
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Nobody does it alone
International
Partnerships
ITU-T
Interregional
Europe
ITU-R ITU-D
JTC1
GTSC
GRSC
EC
CEPT
CEN/
CLC
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CITEL
GSM LA
AHCIET
GSM LA
CCSA
OMA
IEEE
GCF
WIMAX forum
The Parlay Group
IPv6 Forum
NENA
DVB Project
TETRA MoU
(60+ active)
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Open Standards
Open meetings
Consensus
Due Process
All stakeholders may participate in the standards
development process
All interests are discussed and agreement found
Open Access
Balloting and appeal process may be used to find
resolution
IPR holders must identify themselves during the
standards development process
Open access to all deliverables
Open World
Same standard for the same function world-wide
Open Interfaces
Allow additional functions, public or proprietary
Open markets
Interoperability  users are not locked in with
one supplier/service provider
Open IPR
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Open standards  open markets
 Facilitate a multi-supplier environment
 Lay the ground for interoperability in a multi-equipment
provider and multi-service provider environment
 Enable the development of profitable industrial ecosystems
 Open standards > balance power between market players
(suppliers/operators-SPs/users)
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Open standards and service creation
 Facilitate a multi-service provider environment
 interchangeable terminal equipment
 competitive pricing of services
 network agnostic third parties applications
 This is highly critical in countries/regions
 Where local manufacturing industry does not compete
on a global scale (yet)
 That are standards adopters (so far)
 That have highly educated and competitive workforce is
SW (applications and services) development
 Where the service industry is highly creative and
competitive
 Where there is a strong political push to rely on ICT and
education to develop.
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& the Dialogue on Standards
What brought us here together today
*Alliance for the Information Society
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e-health
digital inclusion
e-gov.
e-education
Interconnection of Research Networks (Geant/Red Clara)
Dialogue on Standardization (ETSI)
Network of Regulators (Regulatel)
Dialogue on Policy & Regulation (ECLAC)
Stakeholders’ Network (AHCIET, Menon)
19 demo projects, 75% budget
A bird’s eye view of the @LIS programme
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The Dialogue on Standards
 Positioning
 Open Standards are key to enable the development of ICT
services and applications that help bridge the digital divide
 Objectives
 Increase bilateral work flow
 Increase ETSI visibility and standards adoption in LA
 Means
 3,8 million euros (2003-2006)
 ETSI contribution “indirect” –i.e. in kind
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The starting point: building awareness for ETSI
standards, ways (specifics), and services
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The learning curve
(or « wake up call »)
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Latin American countries do produce ICT standards
 They are just not called that way
 “Interop profiles, Interop frameworks…”
 A usage-driven model
 Services and applications first  architecture is key,
 interoperability ex-post
 The public sector is at the forefront
 ICT for economic development-software, political agendas
 Straight (and fast) to the top
 No legacy of standards making in the lower layers…
 An interesting issue: IP strategies of “new entrants” on
the standards production market
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Nobody cares about standards…
It’s all about usage and solutions to make life easier and better
 But for Interoperability, transferability, reusability
solutions based on open standards  local players in
control
 Sustainability
It’s about creating ecosystems/clusters with strong
implication of local developers & service providers
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@METIS: A Dialogue between EU and Latin America
“Interoperability profilers”
 Objectives
 Create a think tank on specifications and interoperability
profiles for e-gov applications (both policy and
technology)
 Enable the development of joint deliverables (strategic
and/or technical).
 Ways and means
 ETSI enabler/bridge
 Seed money from the @LIS Dialogue on Standards
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Well Comms in Tuxtla
Broadband access for health applications
 Objectives
 Further explore the policy goals of Mexico in relation to
e-health issues
 Ensure a common understanding of the technology
requirements
 Present a set of case studies (broadband connectivity
and applications)
 Increase cooperation between Mexican and European
players (both from a policy and technology perspective)
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Well Comms in Tuxtla
Broadband access for health applications
 Topics
 Broadband accessibility/connectivity based on the use
of satellite technologies (DVB-RCS)
 Use of smart cards technologies for health applications
(health record, security of personal data, authentication
etc).
 Human factors (ease of use, ergonomics, accessibility
for all, etc)
 Legal issues in e-health systems (liability, data privacy,
etc)
 Applications (e.g. Bibliotecas Medicas Digitales)
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@LIS Dialogue on Standards
& Interoperability
A question
Technologies do not come into silos…
should applications do?
 Infrastructures converge to all IP
 Point of gravity of convergence  middleware and services
 Applications?
 Reinventing the wheel?
 Disconnecting issues…but interoperability is across layers
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Dialogue (d
i-alog)
A conversation between two or more persons.
For a successful dialogue,
the partners must achieve
a workable balance of contributions
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