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Gap and Participation
Paolo ROSA
Head, Workshops and
Promotion Division,
ITU - Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau
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WSIS Actions and ITU
Action Line
С1. The role of public governance authorities and all
stakeholders in the promotion of ICTs for development
World Summit on Information Society,
Geneve 2003 and Tunis, 2005
С2. Information and communication infrastructure
C3. Access to information and knowledge
C4. Capacity building
C5. Building confidence and security in the use of ICTs
C6. Enabling environment
C7. ICT Applications
E-government
E-business
E-learning
E-health
E-employment
E-environment
E-agriculture
E-science
Possible Moderators/Facilitators
ECOSOC/UN Regional Commissions/ITU
ITU
ITU/UNESCO
UNDP/UNESCO/ITU/
UNCTAD
ITU
ITU/UNDP/UN REGIONAL
COMMISSIONS/UNCTAD
UNDP/ITU
WTO/UNCTAD/ITU/UPU
UNESCO/ITU/UNIDO
WHO/ITU
ILO/ITU
WHO/WMO/UNEP/UN-Habitat/ITU/ICAO
FAO/ITU
UNESCO/ITU/UNCTAD
C8. Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic diversity and
local content
UNESCO
C9. Media
UNESCO
C10. Ethical dimensions of the Information Society
C11. International and regional cooperation
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UNESCO/ECOSOC
UN REGIONAL COMMISSIONS/
UNDP/ITU/UNESCO/ECOSOC
WTSA-08 : Issues for
developing countries
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Some inputs to WTSA-08
• Some statistics
– Participations
– Contributions
• Issues for discussions
– Facilitating the participation (remote/in the regions)
– Facilitating the understanding of ITU-T activities
– Reflecting African countries requirements
• Resolutions related to Developing Countries (DC)
• Other issues
– Conformity and Interoperability concerns
– Chairman – Vice Chairmanship
– Paperless Meeting
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Countries attending
(2008 Study Group meetings)
AG
TS
19
SG
SG
16
SG
15
SG
13
SG
12
SG
11
9
SG
SG
6
SG
5
SG
4
SG
3
SG
2
SG
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Developing
Developed
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Number of Participants
(2008 Study Group meeting)
300
Developing
Developed
250
200
150
100
50
SG 9
11
SG
1
SG 2
1
SG 3
15
SG
16
SG
17
SG
19
TS
A
G
SG
6
SG
5
SG
4
SG
3
SG
SG
2
0
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Contributions at the last SG meetings
(Logarithmic scale)
1000
Developing
Developed
100
10
SG
11
SG
12
SG
13
SG
15
SG
16
SG
17
SG
19
TS
A
G
9
SG
6
SG
5
SG
4
SG
3
SG
SG
2
1
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Facilitating the participation
• In participating to the WTSA, developing
countries had a control over SG activities
• WTSA role is changing, member states
participating in TSAG have more power
between two WTSAs
• Necessity to participate to TSAG and to SGs
– Direct participation
– Through regional Groups
– Through representatives
– Using new “remote” technologies
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Facilitating the understanding
• Many actions have been taken
– Free access to technical ITU-T Recommendations
– A manual for beginners has been developed and
updating after WTSA-08 is in progress
– Development of guides aimed at developing countries
for help implementing ITU-T Recommendations
– Seminars, Workshops, Regional meetings and
Forums,
• Presentations and tutorials available online
• Audiocast recorded and available online for most events
– Close contact and increased cooperation with ITU
Regional & Areas Offices, and Centers of Excellence
for events and capacity building purposes
– TSB staff identified as contact point for the Region
– Website has been improved, e-flash,…
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Facilitating the understanding
• Some ideas of what could be added
– What developing countries could do?
– Electronic meetings after each SG? To inform the
results of interest for developing countries with
Questions and Answers period…
– Regional groups, “Block meetings in the regions”
– Flagship groups
– Remote participation
– What else?
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Reflecting regional requirements
• Develop a Question of particular interest for the
region
• Discuss the issue in the region
– Regional Groups
• Submit contributions
– How to submit? Individual member or after regional
consultation?
• Reply to the Questionnaires from ITU-T
– Nominating a regional contact point for each SG of
interest
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PP-06 Resolution 123
(Antalya, 2006)
Recognizes:
"the continued shortage of human resources in the
standardization field in developing countries,
resulting in a low level of developing-country
participation in meetings of ITU-T and of ITU-R
and, consequently, in the standards-making
process, leading to difficulties when interpreting
ITU-T and ITU-R Recommendations;"
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Three dimensional environment
Any TIME connection
• On the move
• Outdoors and
indoors
• On the move
• Night
• Outdoors
•Daytime
• Indoors (away from the PC)
• At the PC
Any WHERE connection
Source: ITU, Adapted from NRI (Japan)
• Between PCs
• Human to Human (H2H), not using a PC
• Human to Thing (H2T), using generic equipment
• Thing to Thing (T2T)
Any THING connection
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The concept of Opportunity Index (OI) to
measure the information society
Infodensity
ICT capital [telecommunication
network infrastructures (fixed,
mobile, internet) and of ICT,
including equipment (cables,
routers, etc),
Info-use
Three indicators:
• Internet users every 100
inhabitants
• PC owners every 100
inhabitants
• Houses and TV sets proportion
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Digital Divide
Standardization Gap &
Participation Relationship
Standardization Gap &
Poor Access to Technologies
Digital Divide ≈ ----------------------------------Increase Participation &
Capacity Building
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The Standardization Gap
• The standardization development gap: persistence of the wider
digital divide in ICTs.
• Unequal access to technology and the ability to use that
technology
• ability to access, implement, contribute to and influence
international ICT standards, ( ITU Recommendations)
• digital divide measures disparities
– among different regions (e.g., urban/rural), or
– between different groups within society
(e.g., by age, sex, race, income, etc)
• PP-06 (Res. 123) and WTSA-08 Resolutions
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Bridging the standardization gap
• ITU-T mandated to bridge the
standardization gap between developing
and developed countries.
• Action plan established:
•
•
•
•
•
•
Improve standards making capabilities
Develop guidelines
Consultancy
Human resources building
Fundraising
Fellowship
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Technical Flyers
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Numbering, Naming and Addressing
VoIP
QoS & QoE
NGN
ASON
B-PON ; CWDM; DSL ; G-PON
Optical Fibres and Cables
OTN ; OTS
Synchronization over packet networks
Accessibility
H.264 ; H.350
Multimedia Communications
ASN.1
Security
IMT-2000
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Workshops: some activities
•
Forums Bridging Standardization gap in the Regions
•
The Fully Networked Car – A Workshop including Demonstrations on
Information and Communication Technologies in Motor Vehicles Geneva,
March
•
ITU Symposium 2 on ICTs and Climate Change, Kyoto and London, April and
June 2008, Next in Quito July 2009
•
ITU-T/IEEE workshop on the next generation optical access
Geneva, 19 – 20 June 2008
•
ITU Workshop: “ICT Standards and Intellectual Property Rights”, 1 July
2008
•
Workshop on "From Speech to Audio: bandwidth extension, binaural
perception", 10-12 Sep 2008
•
Side events at WTSA-08 and IGF
•
Participation in BDT Forums in the regions
•
Next Forums on the implementation of the WTSA-08 Resolutions
http://itu.int/ITU-T/worksem
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Workshops in and out Geneva
Year
N.
Events
Total
yearly
days
Average
days/event
Geneva
outside Geneva
days
%
days
%
2002
12
24
2.00
11
46
13
54
2003
14
36
2.57
24
67
12
33
2004
15
31
2.07
8
26
23
74
2005
18
47
2.61
16
34
31
66
2006
18
41
2.28
19
46
22
54
2007
15
33
2.20
13
30
20
70
2008
30
60
2.00
21
35
39
65
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Workshops trend
N. Of
Days
in
out
in
out
% Days
100
50
90
40
80
70
60
30
50
40
20
30
20
10
10
2002
2003
2004
2005
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2006
2007
2008
Workshops in 2008 by Region
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ITU Centre of Excellence
5 Prog/ 5 Partners
Worldwide Networks
4 Prog./5 partners
OAS/CITEL
Telecom Policies
3 PROGRAMS
IDB
New Telecom Techniques
BELL SOUTH
Regulatory Issues
IIT
ICT based Business
CTU
CoE AMS
R.O.Korea
Pakistan
Thailand
Malaysia
Iran
Technical Awareness
Regulatory Issues
Business Management
Rural connectivity
Spectrum management
CoE ASP
The ITU Centre
of Excellence
Network
CoE ARB
Tech.Awareness
Strategic Management
Policies & Reg. Issues
Technology Trends
Corporate Management
Regulatory Issues
Internet Technologies Spectrum management
Spect Man & Sup.
Information Techn.
CIS
CEE
Branch
Branch
CoE EUR+CIS
5 Prog./2 partners
6 Prog./2 partners
Telecom Policies
Regulatory Issues
Business management
New Technologies
IP Awareness
Rural Connectivity
5 Prog./ ? Partners
To be
defined
ALCATEL
IIT
5 Prog./3 partners
Regulatory Issues
Business management
New Technologies
Spectrum Management
Rural Connectivity
CoE AFR-E
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CTO
Airtel
IIT
Regulatory Issues
Business management
New Technologies
Spectrum Management
Rural Connectivity
CoE AFR-F
SFM
IIT
TSB Questionnaire to
developing countries on
Bridging the Standardization Gap
It will provide background information on
the relevance of ITU-T Recommendations
for developing countries and a useful tool
to develop strategies able to meet the
requirements of the PP-06 and WTSA-08
Resolutions.
TSB Circular 213 – 5 May 2008
to: tsbpromo@itu.int
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The ITU-T Questionnaire
TSB Circular 213 of 5 May 2008
replies by 13 of June
• Familiarity with Recommendations published by ITU-T
• Relevance and usefulness of Recommendations to
Developing Countries
• Difficulties for implementation and suggestions to
increase participation by developing countries
• Regional standardization “block” meetings as a tool to
facilitate participation from the regions
• Seminars and Workshops in the regions
• The WTSA Resolutions relevant to developing countries:
contributions and proposal for improvement
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W T S A - 0 8 N E W R E S O L U T I O N 7 4
Admission of Sector Members from developing
countries in the work of the ITU-T
• resolves
… to encourage the adoption of the necessary
measures to enable new members from developing
countries to join ITU-T …and other groups within the
ITU-T, (consider financial contributions applied in the BDT)
• instructs the Director of the
Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
to propose to the Council to consider the admission
of such category in the work of the
ITU-T …. and to include its consideration of this
matter in the council work for the preparation of the
2010 Plenipotentiary Conference.
Note: These Sector Members from Developing Countries shall not
be affiliated in any way to any Sector Member of a Developed
Country, and be limited to those Sector Members of Developing
Countries classified by the UNDP as low income per capita Country,
not exceeding (……US$).
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TIES and ITU-T Members
distribution
ITU Member States and their TIES accounts, June 2007
100%
258
49
80%
ITU-T Sector Members and Associates, June 2007
100%
9
0
16
88
80%
2'064
60%
LDC
106
40%
20%
LDC
60%
Developing
Developing
Developed
1'531
40%
102
227
20%
36
0%
TIES Accounts
Member States
0%
Sector Members
Associates
Need for more participation
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Developed
Participation
Participants in ITU-T m eetings
Total: 2'987
100%
1.5%
20.0%
80%
ITU-T SG Chairs and Vice-Chairs, 1996-2000-2004
3'896
26.5%
60%
40%
78.4%
71.2%
100%
2.3%
90%
9
1
3
23
80%
3
33
70%
LDC
LDC
60%
Developing
Developing
50%
Developed
20%
40%
Developed
44
30%
51
56
2000
2004
20%
10%
0%
0%
2000
2007
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1996
Participation: Contributions
Developing
countries
678
contributions
(25.2%)
ITU-T Member
contributions
2007
2'011contributions
(74.8%)
Developed
countries
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The Standardization
Development Ladder
• Bridging the standardization development gap
requires a sequence of steps, depending on the
level of:
– economic development
– local manufacturing capability
– local R&D capability
– previous engagement with ITU
• These steps can be conceptualised in terms of a
“Ladder of Standardization Development”
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Standardization
Development Ladder (1)
Capacity-building
• to build a national resource base of
qualified engineers able to implement
Recommendations
• ITU centres of excellence
Growing use of ITU Recs
• can be measured in terms of sales or
downloads of Recommendation
• should help to reduce costs and promote
inter-operability
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National training and
Capacity-building in use
ITU Recommendations
Growing use of ITU
Recommendations
Standardization
Development Ladder (1)
Entering proposals to WTSA
Determining ITU-T study
questions to drive the work of
the Study Groups.
Contributing to ITU-T SGs
“Contribution-driven”
philosophy: to enter into the
process and shaping future
standards
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Entering proposals at WTSA
on future study questions
and work programmes
Nominating representatives
as study group chairs, vice chairs. rapporteurs, focus
group chairs etc
Submit contributions at
Study Groups and
related meetings
Attracting ITU meetings
and/or regional groups
(Res 54)
Going to Study
Groups and related
meetings
ITU Sector and Associate
Membership
National training and
capacity-building in use of
ITU Recommendations
Growing use of ITU
Recommendations
Entering proposals
E
It’s all about
It’s
all
about
ENGAGING
climbing
the
with ITU and
Standardization
its
Development
membership,
Ladder
by getting
more involved
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Nominating reps
N
G
Giving inputs
Attracting meetings
A
Going to meetings
G
Entering proposals at WTSA
on future study questions
and work programmes
Nominating representatives
as study group chairs, vice chairs. rapporteurs, focus
group chairs etc
Giving contributions at
Study Groups and
related meetings
Attracting ITU meetings
and/or regional groups
(Res 54)
Going to Study
Groups and related
meetings
IITU Membership
ITU Sector or Associate
Membership
National Training
N
National training and
capacity-building in use of
ITU Recommendations
Growing Usage
G
Growing usage of ITU
Recommendations
Regional Flagship Groups
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Same time
Different time
synchronous
asynchronous
co-located
Face-to-face meetings
Ongoing collaboration
meeting rooms, projection
systems, tabletop
computer, flip charts etc
project management tools,
e-calendars, wall charts,
shift-work groupware etc
remote
Different place
Same place
Types of collaboration
Remote meetings
Time-shift remote
collaboration
remote collaboration tools,
video/audio conferencing,
IM/chat, telepresence,
webcasts, virtual worlds etc
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websites, forums, email, ecalendars, sharepoints, wikis,
version control etc
Remote participation why?
• To assist in bridging the standardization gap,
especially for delegates from developing
countries
• To provide training materials
(archived on web)
• To make participation in short meetings more
efficient
(e.g. steering committees, seminars,
rapporteur groups)
• To contribute in reducing carbon footprint
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Segmenting the market
Telepresence
Increasing costs
Portable
videoconferencing
Remote meeting with
shared screen and audio
Studio-based
videoconferencing
Webcast/Webinar
(one-way)
Web conference with
full interaction (two-way)
Virtual Worlds
Phone calls
Email
Audio
conference
Instant
messaging
Increasing bandwidth requirements
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Remote collaboration
existing online tools
• Free access to ITU-T
Recommendations online (since 1
January 2007)
• TIES access (password protected) to
meeting documents etc
• Other electronic tools, e.g.,
correspondence groups, informal FTP
areas on website, Forums etc
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Remote participation
• ITU-T trial, launched by TSAG in Dec-07, to
evaluate remote participation tools
– GoToMeeting: used extensively within ITU for
short (>2 hours) meetings, with up to 30
participants
– GoToWebinar: used for covering Climate Change
symposium in Kyoto, with up to 200 participants
over 2 days (archived)
- WebEx: one year trial offered by CISCO
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Possible future scenarios
• Increasing share of ITU meetings held outside
Geneva or in cyberspace
– Workshops and symposia, Webinars
– Regional block meetings
• Distributed participation in ITU meetings
– Broadcast (two-way audio/video) to regional offices of
Centres of Excellence, allowing for local interaction and
participation
• Increased use of remote collaboration tools
– Full-scale use of existing tools after trial period?
– ITU-T workshops in Second Life?
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Resolution 54 : Creation of regional groups
to support, within available or otherwise
contributed resources and on a case-by-case
basis the creation of regional groups
SG2
SG3
SG6
SG12
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Working Methods and Procedures
• Establishment
• Leadership
• Participation
(Participation is open to any individual expert from a country which is a member of ITU who wishes to contribute to the work. This includes individuals who are also
members of international, regional and national organizations. Participation in Regional Group should not be used as an alternative to ITU membership)
•
•
•
•
•
•
General financing of Regional Group
Financing of meetings
Administrative support
Meeting logistics
Working language
Deliverables
(contributions from the countries of the region, reports, etc. to the parent study group)
•
•
•
•
Approval of deliverables
Regional Groups can establish their own rules of approval.
Printing and distribution of deliverables
Progress reports
(Regional Group progress reports are to be provided to the parent study group meeting)
• Meeting announcements
• Working guidelines
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Gap – Brasilia, May 2008
Standardization “Block”
Meetings in the Regions
Forum on Next Generation Network Standardization
Colombo,
Sri Lanka,
7-10 April
2009
ITU Forum
Bridging
Standardization
Gap – Brasilia, May 2008
From the Questionnaire
1.6 Usefulness of block meetings
8
7
1.7 Willingness to host block meetings
Number of entities
6
5
4
3
Yes
2
Yes; 7; 47%
No
Maybe
Maybe; 8; 53%
1
0
1
2
3
4
5
No; 0; 0%
Not helpful
Definitely helpful
Forum on Next Generation Network Standardization
Colombo,
Sri Lanka,
7-10 April
2009
ITU Forum
Bridging
Standardization
Gap – Brasilia, May 2008
The ITU-T “Block”
Meetings in the region
•Cooperation with regional organizations: CITEL,
RCC, APT, ATU, LAS,…
•One per year per region possibly co-located
with the ITU Development Forums
•Topics decided by the membership and
transversal to any ITU-T Study Groups
•Official status as generator of contributions to
parent study groups
•TSB secretarial support, EDH facilities as any other
SG meeting
Forum on Next Generation Network Standardization
Colombo,
Sri Lanka,
7-10 April
2009
ITU Forum
Bridging
Standardization
Gap – Brasilia, May 2008
The BK,J matrix concept:
any Question from any SG
Q
SG A
B
C
D
E
F
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
n
n+1
Forum on Next Generation Network Standardization
Colombo,
Sri Lanka,
7-10 April
2009
ITU Forum
Bridging
Standardization
Gap – Brasilia, May 2008
BE,3
G
N
N+1
“Block” Meetings: Pros and Cos
• PROS:
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
More participation of experts from the region: study, progress, approval process “have a voice in global standards”
Increase of contributions from the region
Lower costs associated (travel/accomodation Region/Geneva) for regional experts
Same TSB facilities available on site: regional presence
Possibility to co-locate S-RBMs with ITU Forums or other events
Potential increase of membership: sector’s promotion
Reduce standardization gap and digital divide increase capacity building
Possibility to reduce Study group meetings duration
• COS:
•
•
•
•
TSB staff to move for one-two weeks
Funding / associated organizational costs
Risk to work on too much regional-oriented standards
Need to look for co-location with ITU Forums or other events
Forum on Next Generation Network Standardization
Colombo,
Sri Lanka,
7-10 April
2009
ITU Forum
Bridging
Standardization
Gap – Brasilia, May 2008
Americas Flagship Group
• Resolution 123 (PP-06) – Standardization
Gap
• Resolution 44 Efforts to decrease the
standardization gap
• Resolution 54 Regional Groups
• TSAG to set up a group on the
standardization gap
Forum on Next Generation Network Standardization
Colombo,
Sri Lanka,
7-10 April
2009
ITU Forum
Bridging
Standardization
Gap – Brasilia, May 2008
Evaluation Mechanisms
For the Standardization Gap
a)Volume of downloads from Recs ITU-T site;
b)Number of TIES users
c) Number of Sector members and associates;
d)Number of Chairmen and rapporteur from DCs
e)Number of contributions to the SGs
f) Regional groups
g)Flagship groups
Forum on Next Generation Network Standardization
Colombo,
Sri Lanka,
7-10 April
2009
ITU Forum
Bridging
Standardization
Gap – Brasilia, May 2008
Flagship Group Americas
« FLAG-AL »
• Permanent regional standards awareness
• Training on standardization in the regions also producing
manuals and audio/video material
• Support and measure participation in ITU-T activities
from public, private sectors and academia
• Translate ITU-T material
• Support SMEs
• Put in place tools for a remote or direct participation of
experts in ITU-T activities
• Creation of regional Testing & Calibration labs
• Support participation from Academia
• Invite regulators to put in place mechanisms to consider
international standards when preparing national
technical regulations
Forum on Next Generation Network Standardization
Colombo,
Sri Lanka,
7-10 April
2009
ITU Forum
Bridging
Standardization
Gap – Brasilia, May 2008
ITU Mission
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Committed to Connecting the
World
ITUing…
YES, WE DO !
Paolo ROSA
Head, Workshop and Promotion Division
ITU - Telecommunication Standardization Bureau
tsbpromo@itu.int
Forum on Next Generation Network Standardization
Colombo,
Sri Lanka,
7-10 April
2009
ITU Forum
Bridging
Standardization
Gap – Brasilia, May 2008