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ITU
Opening Plenary, 4.6
Malcolm Johnson
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Month Day, 2008

• Climate Change
• Power saving checklist for standards authors
• Symposia on ICTs and Climate Change. London, Kyoto.
• Studies on climate monitoring and weather forecasting
• Focus Group
• Accessibility
• Checklist for standards authors
• Workshop on UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• New JCA on accessibility
• IGF Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability
• Emergency Telecoms
• Spectrum requirements for use in initial phase of an emergency
• Language independent prefix for emergency numbers
• Universal Child helpline number
• Cybersecurity
• 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, Trusted ISP, and entity authentication assurance
• Bridging the standardization gap
• Regional forums
• Remote participation
• Meetings in regions
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Additional spectrum identified for International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT):
• Higher frequencies: to face growth in densely populated areas
• Lower frequencies to provide, at a reasonable cost, high speed mobile services everywhere, in particular in less densely populated areas
• NGN:
• requirements, architecture, OAM, signaling protocols, resource control, NNI signaling, NGN testing, and security
• IPTV: First Recs. approved based on results of IPTV FG
• Optical and other transport network infrastructures
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Free ITU-T Recommendations very popular: 3.8 millions copies downloaded in 12months
• Fully Networked Car:
- Annual event at Geneva International Motor Show
• First Kaleidoscope conference – Innovation in NGN
– new relationship with academia
• Technology Watch briefing reports: climate change, lawful interception, remote collaboration tools, telepresence, Ubiquitous Sensor Networks, CALM
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• Increasing collaboration with other bodies
• Adapting to market needs
• Addressing public policy issues
• Increasing participation of developing countries
• New membership category for academia, research bodies
• “ITU inside” concept: Mark to show conformance to ITU Recs
• Increased workshop programme
• International public/private partnership key strength
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• Attaining climate neutral status in 3 years
• Adapting to convergence
• Some principle themes of WRC-11:
– “Classic” radiocommunication services
– Regulatory issues
– Safety
• increasingly complex standardisation scenario
• Maintaining ITU as preeminent global telecommunication and radiocommunication standards development organization
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• 33 Agenda Items, again addressing almost all Radio Services
• CPM11-1 established studies in ITU-R Study Groups
• Decide on future standardization topics
• Create structure to efficiently address future work
• Ensure relevant, clear mandates avoiding duplication
• Facilitate participation, especially of developing countries
• Enhance current electronic working methods
• Appoint new chairmen and vice-chairmen
• Bridging the standardization gap
• Climate change, accessibility
• Standardisation scenario
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• ITU-T website http://www.itu.int/ITU-T
• WTSA-08 http://www.itu.int/itu-t/wtsa-08
• General Enquiries standards@itu.int
• WRC-07 website http://www.itu.int/ITU-
R/index.asp?category=conferences&rlink=wrc-07&lang=en
• Presentation on results of WRC-07 http://www.itu.int/md/R08-SEM.RAD01-C-0018/en
• Presentation on preparations for WRC-11 http://www.itu.int/md/R08-SEM.RAD01-C-0026/en
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