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About
GISFI
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ABOUT GISFI
GISFI (Global ICT Standardisation Forum for India) is a
standardisation body. This is a Non-Profit, Non-Government
Society registered under Indian Laws, GISFI provides a platform
for operators, academia and ICT professionals to join with
Government to identify standardisation needs and develop
standards in the ICT sector with focus on India.
Prof. Dr. Ramjee Prasad
Founder Chairman, GISFI
Director, CTIF
Aalborg University
Denmark
+45-40614248
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Mr. T R Dua
Vice Chairman
GISFI
New Delhi
India
+91-98101 50000
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GISFI Structure
GISFI
Global ICT Standardisation Forum for India
Standardization
• Indian Industry Leadership
• Functioning as TSDO, after getting
approval from DOT
• Peer to Peer relationship with ITU,
GSC, ARIB, TTC, TIA, ETSI, WWRF….
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Indian Academia Leadership
Align & drive SDO
Global Research Collaboration
GISFI PhD Program
I4CT
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Vision and Objectives
To be an ICT standards forum in India, that develops standards to meet the Indian
requirements, as well as contributes towards the evolution of Global Standards
• To unify standardization efforts in India
• To create standards addressing the specificity of the Indian ICT Scenario
• To answer the business needs of the Indian market
• To promote Indian Initiatives Globally
• To strengthen ties with leading institutes
• To develop and cultivate R&D agenda
• To develop skilled manpower & IPRs
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Vision and Objectives...Contd.
A Public – Private Partnership effort in ICT standardisation & patent
based research for product development in ICT area to address the
rural needs and others
• Be the leading ICT SDO in India
• Develop standards to focus on India with Global reach
• Enhance international ICT standardisation efforts.
• Harmonised growth in domestic ICT industries and global
competitiveness.
• Prime mover of innovation and enhancement of existing technology.
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Members, Supporters and
Collaborators
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Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
Vihaan Networks Limited (VNL)
Tejas Networks
Communication Multimedia And Infrastructure (CMAI)
Association of India
NIKSUN
NEC
Ericsson
Motorola
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN)
HUAWEI
Samsung
VERISERVE
IIOT/GIOT
WIP Labs
IIT- Hyderabad
IIIT-Allahabad
Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies,
Sinhgad Technical Education Society
HMR Institute of Technology and Management
Birla Institute of Technology
Individual members from Indian industries, operators
and
academic
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2012 institutions
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Supported by Telecommunication
Engineering Centre (TEC), DoT, Government
of India
Supported by Telecom Equipment
Manufacturers Association of India (TEMA)
ITU-T Sector Member
ETSI
ARIB
TTC
TIA
WWRF
IEEE and OMA in process
GSC (invited as observer in China and
Canada)
CJK (invited as a participant in Japan)
YRP (Yokosuka Research Park)
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GISFI Working Groups
Leader Technical Standard
Commitee
Internet of Things (IoT)
Krishna Sirohi, I2TB-SPPL
• Chair: Balamurlidhar P, TCS
Cloud and Service-Oriented • Chair: Parag Pruthi, NIKSUN
Networks (CSeON)
Green ICT (GICT)
• Chair: Anand Prasad, NEC
Future Radio Network (FRN) • Chair: Rakesh Agrawal, VNL
Spectrum
Secuirty & Privacy
• Chair: Pawan Garg, Former Wireless
Advisor, Government of India
• Chair: Anand R Prasad,NEC
Special Interest Group (SIG) • Chair: Debu Nayak, HUAWEI
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GISFI’s Chosen Incremental
Standardisation Model
India heading to expand heavily into
rural area with state of art
infrastructure and
broadband services.
New
Global
Standards
Existing
Standards
Additional
Needs
Rural
Challenges
Unique System
Needs
Low ARPU
Cost effective
No Grid Power
Energy Efficient
Wide spread extent
Suitable Deployment
Architecture
Extreme
Environment
Suitable engineering
Varied Services
Best mix of all
Technologies
Only infra to deliver
basic services
Critical and high
available
Current Products and standards do not
meet the needs !
New URBAN Requirements
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Need New Products & Standards !!
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Benefits of GISFI Standards
Coherent and
aligned ICT
standards
Industrial
collaboration
Joint ICT solutions
for industrial
compatibility and
IPRs
Trade and
Regulatory
convergence
Access to global
markets
Respond to
market dynamics
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GISFI & INDIA
• GISFI has already established collaboration process with TEC’s
National Working Groups (NWG) to make national Indian
contribution to ITU
• GISFI to make same contributions to other standardisation
forum such as 3GPP, GSC and M2M
(GSC = Global Standards Collaboration)
• GISFI and CDOT to work together to ensure CDOT products
(and Indian IPRs) are part of global standards
• GISFI has contributed in Green Telecom, Cloud Computing and
IMT-Advanced initiative of TRAI
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Standardisation, Higher Research
and Education
• Standards are part of every entrepreneurial strategy for
business growth in a modern digital economy
• To ensure that technology developments are fully beneficial
for industry, governments and consumers alike, they need
to be interoperable. Therefore, research innovation and
standardization must go hand in hand.
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Economic Benefits
of Standards
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Dr. Hamadoun I. Toure
Secretary General
International Telecommunication Union
Standards are a proven tool for economic development
The standards topologies, protocols and interfaces developed by
ITU engender a smoothly functioning global ICT network - one
that commerce powers, politics, democracy, health, education,
entertainment, literacy and financial markets
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Economic Benefits of Standards
Overview Over the last decade, several studies have been conducted
with the aim of determining the economic and other benefits of the
use of standards. These studies have been undertaken by ISO
member bodies and other organisations and had mainly
macroeconomic focus.
Economic benefits are not necessarily the key drivers behind
Standards development. However, the resources devoted to the
production of Standards and the ways in which Standards change
peoples‟ behaviour, inevitably has an economic effect. Similarly,
many Standards are not designed with a specific economic outcome
in mind, but to increase safety or manage risk. To the extent that
accidents or risks lead to economic costs then their prevention
through the use of Standards has an economic effect (The Centre for
International Economics, 2006)
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Economic Benefits of Standards contd.
Standards are a prime means of diffusing innovation through the
whole economy, ensuring that the bulk of firms do not lag too far
behind the early adopters of new ideas.
Standards have an impact on every area of economic life,
supporting safety regulations, assuring quality of produce and
facilitating compatibility of products. New standards can emerge
through a competitive market process, as occurred with the
adoption of VHS videocassette format over its rival, Betamax, or
by accepted use, as in the QWERTY format for English-language
keyboards
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We all believe that standards provide
significant benefits to different stakeholders
Companies
Consumers
Public Authorities
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Value of standards
Standards can be presumed to have value:
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But how much?
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Can it be measured?
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Importance of Standards and
Standardization
• Create :
a) Stronger technological ICT base
b) Adverse International Environment
• Builds:
a) An Enabling ICT Eco-System
b) Interdependent and synergistic ICT policies
• ICT standards are vital for efficient manufacturing:
a) Contribute to better regulation
b) Enable multi-market access
c) Create active markets
d) Encourage innovation
e) Improve communication
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Importance of Standards
The Challenge:
How to ensure an effective
and efficient use of
standardization to promote
innovation?
Competitiveness
and business
Public
interests
ICT STANDARDS
Private
interests
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Innovation
and
Research
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Standards are a tool for
coordinating the
preferences and demand
of the various economic
and innovation actors
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Attributes of Standards
Maintenance and
Availability
IPR
• Ongoing support and maintenance of published standards,
including swift adaptation to new developments which
prove their necessity, efficiency and interoperability, is
guaranteed over a long period.
• Resulting
standards
are
publicly
available
for
implementation and use at reasonable terms (including for a
reasonable fee or free of charge).
• IP essential to the implementation of standards is licensed to
applicants on a (fair) reasonable and non-discriminatory
basis
• Standards need to respond to market needs and regulatory
requirements
Relevance, Stability
and Neutrality
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• Performance oriented rather than based on design or
descriptive characteristics.
• Should not distort the global markets; should maintain a
capacity to build competition and innovation upon them and
should be based on advanced scientific and technological
developments
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Changing Landscape for Standards
Development
• Demands of global markets are rapidly evolving
• To address ever shortening time-to-market needs of Industry:
Cooperation & coordination with the global community
̶ Efficient collaboration across geographies
̶ Variety of collaboration choices required, including options
beyond the standards process
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Need for Indian Standards
Indian
standards as
a globally
powerful
technology
transfer
channel
Drive innovation and competitiveness for
India by adapting global ICT
standardization policy to Regional market
and Industrial policy developments and
vice versa
Significant
benefits
to economy
Coordinate and cooperate more closely
to manage the regional effects of the
global financial crisis on the ICT sector
Cope with the
dynamics of the
rapidly changing
global markets
Increase coherency, quality and
consistency of ICT standards and cope
with new challenges in standardization
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Quick response
to regional and
global
technological,
economic and
social factors
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Standards in Education
Innovative
Research
Education with
new technologies
Technology
innovation
through
education and
multidisciplinary
activities
Standardisation
Dynamic
networked
businesses and
value chains
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Basic Concepts in the Economics of
Standardization
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Economies of scale
Free rider problem
Information asymmetry
Transaction costs
Network externalities
Switching costs
Excess inertia and lock-in
Bandwagon effect
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ISO Methodology
Objectives
 Measure the impact of standards on an organization
 Provide clear criteria to assess the value of using standards
 Provide guidance when developing further studies to assess the
benefits of using standards within an industry sector
Step
 The Standard for Exchange of Product model data (STEP) is an
international standard designed to address interoperability
problems encountered in the exchange of digital product
information.
Step is a suite of standards enabling manufacturing companies to
exchange digital representations of engineering and manufacturing
data.
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ISO Methodology
Benefits from Step
Benefits accrue to end users through increased interoperability of
computer-aided design, engineering, and manufacturing and
product data management systems
Benefits for Business
Strategic benefits of standards are well understood by the
individuals involved in standards, i.e., the technical experts who
participate in standards development. Companies actively involved
in standards work more frequently reap short- and long-term costsavings and competitive benefits than those that do not participate.
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ISO Methodology
• Potential Competitive Advantage through Standards
• “Having influence in the content of a standard is an important
factor in gaining competitive advantage.”
• Companies are motivated to participate in standardization
because they gain an edge over non-participating companies in
terms of insider knowledge. Early access to information is
valuable
• Cost Reduction through Standardization
“Standardization can lead to lower transaction costs in the
economy as a whole, as well as to savings for individual
businesses.”
• Effects of Standards on the Supplier/Client Relationship
• “Standards have a positive effect on the buying power of
companies.”
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ISO Methodology
• Standards and the Formation of Strategic Alliances
• “It is clear that cooperation between companies in matters of
standardization is advantageous since the resulting synergy can
help reduce costs and increase profits.”
• Standards and R&D
• “Businesses not only reduce the economic risk of their R&D
activities by participating in standardization, but can also lower
their R&D costs.”
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Conclusion
Mr. Malcolm Johnson
Director
Telecommunication Standardisation Bureau
International Telecommunication Union
Standardisation is a key building block in constructing a
globally connected society.
Standards play a strategic role in fostering innovation and
competitive markets
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