Focus Group
Bridging the Gap: From Innovations to
Standards
Ajay Ranjan Mishra
Chairman-Focus Group
ITU-T
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Focus Group
BTG: from Innovation to Standards
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Set up at TSAG meeting of January 2012
Web http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/innovation
First meeting 19 March in Geneva
ICT Innovations Workshop on 20-21 March
Objective of FG
 Document successful ICT innovations in developing
countries
 Assess their potential for standardization to enable
their implementation in other parts of the world
 Identify new standardization work items for ITU-T
Study Groups
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ICT Innovations and Standards
 Lack of standards is a barrier to Innovations
 A balance between innovation and coordination is often
achieved by market-sensitive standardization
 - Krechmer Open Standards promote interoperability and drive
innovation in Developing countries.
 Test beds for innovation
 Market size and network effects
 Standardization can enable globalization of innovations
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Management Team
 Vice Chairs
 Pieter Geldenhuys, Vodacom, South Africa
 Dr Vilian Sarian, NIIR, Russia
 Slaheddine Mareef, Tunisie Telecom, Tunisia
 Issac Boateng, National Commission Authority, Ghana
 Dr Rekha Jain, Telecom Centre of Excellence, India
 Asok Chatterjee, Ericsson, USA
 TSB Coordinator
 Vijay Mauree
 Chairman
 Ajay Ranjan Mishra
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Work Plan
 Item 1: In cooperation with ITU-D, document successful
cases of ICT innovations by geographical area
 Asia
 Africa
 Latin America
 East Europe
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Work Plan
 Item 2 : Analyze the innovations that may be standardized
and identify best practices which can facilitate the
implementation of such innovations in other parts of the
world;
 Item 3 : Identify a few case studies which, in particular,
developing countries can adopt to enhance their ICT
innovation and standardization capabilities in order to
improve their socio-economic development;
 Item 4 : Identify the issues developing countries may be
facing to bring their ICT innovation to ITU-T.
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Work Plan
 Item 5 : Suggest future ITU-T study items and
related actions;
 Item 6 : Examine how other Standards
Development Organizations, forums and consortia
address ICT innovation, and integrate them into
their standardization activities;
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Working Groups
WG 1
• Item 1
• Item 3
WG: Chair
Abhay Karandikar
IIT, Mumbai
WG 2
• Item 2
• Item 5
WG: Chair
Ramy Ahmad
TR, Egypt
WG 3
• Item 4
• Item 6
WG: Chair
Enbo Wang
KEA, China
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Deliverables
 ICT Innovations Report
 Report on successful cases of ICT Innovations in
different economic sectors from various geographical
areas which may benefit from standardization in ITU-T
 Proposals on new standardization activities for ITU-T, as
appropriate
 Support TSB in organising a side event at the WTSA-12
on “Bridging the Gap: from Innovations to Standards”
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FG- Working Group Outputs
 ICT Innovations Report (WG1+ WG3)
 Report on successful cases of ICT Innovations in
different economic sectors from various geographical
areas which may benefit from standardization in ITU-T
 Proposals on new standardization activities for ITU-T, as
appropriate (WG 2)
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Innovation Application Challenge
- Currently ITU is running an Innovation application
challenge (for FG)
- Focus on ICT innovations applications that could be
standardized.
- Ending Period: Q1 2013
- More details on ITU website
- Invitations Open for Sponsorship
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Current Outputs of FG
- Excellent Side Event @GSS – Dubai
Repository of Innovations with more than 200 innovations
to be analyzed
- FG working towards developing the criteria to analyze
innovations
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Future Meetings
 March 2013: India
 May 2013: US or Africa
 Final Report to TSAG: June 2013
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WELCOME
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