INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION UNION
ICT&CC Joint Coordination
Activity (JCA- ICT&CC)
TELECOMMUNICATION
STANDARDIZATION SECTOR
STUDY PERIOD 2009-2012
Doc 82
English only
Original: English
Geneva, 12 April 2012
Source:
JCA Chairman and Co-Chairman
Title:
Report of the tenth meeting of JCA on ICT&CC
1.1
General
The tenth meeting of JCA on ICT&CC was held on 12 April 2012 in Geneva under the
Chairmanship of Mr Ahmed Zeddam and Mr. Dave Faulkner (Co-Chairman). The meeting was
attended face to face and/or online by 30 participants. The list of participants can be found in
Annex A.
1.2.
Agenda and Scope
The agenda, Doc.78 Rev 1, was updated to include, also under item 4, Mr.Yong-Woon Kim, of
ETRI, to present Doc 79 on ‘Progress status of ISO/IEC JTC 1 on Green ICT matters’.
2.
Presentations and Comment
See documents 77, 79, 80 and 81.
2.1 Ahmed Zeddam gave a verbal report of the activities of ITU-T SG5 on ICT and the
Environment. (This JCA was held on the second day of this event which ran from 11-18 April in
Geneva). The objective of this SG5 meeting is to complete the work programme of the current
2008-2012 Study Period with emphasis on Recommendations going to consent. He gave some
information about topics of interest to this meeting resulting from the TSAG Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group meeting of 10-13 January 2012. Two new
JCAs were created. One concerns cloud computing. The other is on home networks and smart
grids. TSAG agreed to set up two Focus Groups – one on M2M service layer, and another on
disaster relief, network resilience and recovery (FG-DR&NRR). The next four yearly WTSA
(The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly) will be held in Dubai in
November/December. SG5 will report on its activities and discuss its future work programme.
2.2 Report of the ISO/IEC JTC 1 Plenary meeting. 7-12 November 2011.
Ahmed Zeddam presented Doc 77 “Report of the ISO/IEC JTC 1 Plenary meeting, 7-12
November 2011” which he attended with Mr.Yong-Woon Kim of ETRI. The meeting addressed
green activities.
A New JTC 1 Subcommittee 39 on Sustainability for and by Information Technology was set up
to include activity on data center energy efficiency taxonomy and vocabulary, a suite of metrics
supporting universally accepted standardized Key Performance Indicators, development of best
practices for energy efficient data centers and development of an energy management system
standard specifically tailored for data centers. It is proposed in Doc 77 that JCA-ICT&CC
sends a liaison statement to JTC 1/SC 39 recommending them to nominate a representative
to JCA-ICT&CC. Doc 77 also notes the actions proposed Resolution 41 Call for consideration
for future Green-by-ICT standardization to JTC 1/SCs and WGs. This includes activity on eeducation, e-learning and e-training, and building networks. Mr. Yong-Woon Kim (Republic of
Korea) may be invited to relevant group meetings to explain the following information.
2.3 Mr. Jean-Manuel Canet Rapporteur ITU-T Q18/5 reported on progress on methodologies for
environmental impact assessment of ICT. At the last meeting in the Republic of Korea two new
recommendations were published these are L.1410 “Methodology for environmental impact
assessment of information and communication technologies (ICT) goods, networks and services
and L.1420 “Methodology for environmental impact assessment of Information and
Communication Technologies in organizations”. These Recommendations are a major
achievement and represent the results of significant effort from a number of delegates at this JCA
meeting. They are the subject of pilots run by the European Commission to ‘road test’
methodology standards. The outcome of these pilots could result in revised versions of the
Recommendations. At this meeting work will continue on methodologies concerning the
environmental impact of ICT projects and ICT in cities. There have been 6 contributions on the
latter topic. The Rapporteur expects that these Recommendations will be practical in approach
and allow the positive aspects of ICT to be quantified. Work on ICT in Countries will continue
later this year in the beginning of next. Cooperation on methodologies will continue with other
SDOs and other organizations such as ISO, IEC, GHG Protocol, EU Commission and the
UNFCCC.
2.4 Mr.Yong Woon Kim, ETRI, gave a verbal update on progress on the ITU Methodology ICT
Projects. ISO and GHG initiative Project Protocol do not offer specific guidance on ICT projects
and their environmental impact. This Methodology describes the six principles of project
accounting and includes the following steps: planning, analysis, validation (e.g. by an
independent authority before the project starts), monitoring, quantifying, reporting and verifying.
Practical examples are the construction of a base station or the replacement existing servers with
a more energy-efficient data centre.
2.5 Molly Webb of ‘The Climate Group’ presented DOC 81 “Information Marketplaces: The
New Economics of Cities”. Verizon and the University of Nottingham (plus partners such as
ARUP) have been supporting this activity which follows on from the Smart2020 report. Work
has been also conducted on policies for smart grids which is billed as a ‘green new deal’ and
could lead to 500,000 new jobs.40 actions concerning cities and energy efficiency have been
identified in the area of Smart grid Smart energy metering , Smart water metering , Real-time
transport information and Electric vehicles. A key conclusion of this study is that projects should
not be evaluated in isolation as the same communication infrastructure investment can serve
multiple projects. This approach is not possible in many administrations where transport and
energy, for example, are considered separately. The Framework for a Smarter City brings
together in a holistic way measures which ICT can have across the sectors. Smart city value is
not being realised today because the fragmented approach is not considering the ICT
infrastructure as a key enabler on which multiple open ICT applications can operate.
2.6 Ms. Colette Maloney of the European Commission made a presentation (Doc 80, “ ICT and
Cities”). The EC is planning to adopt common measurement methodologies to capture the
sector's energy intensity and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under a common framework and
is assessing its suitability for adoption via pilot trials. The EC will propose policy and regulatory
measures if appropriate. The EC is supporting city partnerships between the ICT sector and
major emitting sectors (e.g. transport and energy) to improve their energy efficiency and reduce
greenhouse gas emissions. Mapping numerous stakeholders to these initiatives is a complex task
as it needs to involve the whole supply chain. Key methodologies including those from ITU-T
are being evaluated in the pilots for their suitability for application to smart cities. Feedback will
be provided to the SDOs. Funding for large-scale projects is being considered of value 10M Euro
per project. It is important that the solutions, especially the ICT infrastructure, are integrated
across projects. Therefore open solutions are being followed to avoid technical lock-in. Projects
must consider both their positive and negative impacts and avoid fragmentation of effort.
Projects must therefore consider the different public authorities which will use the ICT and
infrastructure and be well integrated. The key challenges to organisations developing
methodologies for ICT in cities are to avoid fragmentation of effort, ensure coherence with
existing methodologies/ongoing efforts (GHG, ADEME, JRC, …), bring in work from ‘ICT
projects’ methodologies and think of the end-users.
3.
Announcements of upcoming events
Ms Cristina Bueti of ITU-TSB said that there will be a thematic workshop on e-waste at the
WSIS forum on 16 May. All are welcome in Geneva.
See http://groups.itu.int/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=REVHKM26APQ%3D&tabid=1948
ITU together with Prompt is organizing the Seventh ITU Symposium on ICTs, the Environment
and Climate Change on 29-31 May 2012 in Montreal, Canada. See
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/climatechange/201205/index.html
The second ITU-T Green Standards Week will take place in Paris 17-21 September 2012,
supported by Microsoft and TechAmerica Europe. Green ICT standards will be discussed on
17/18. Results of the second green ICT challenge supported by Telefonica will be presented.
See http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/gsw/201102/index.html
and http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/greenict/201206/index.html
3.1
Next Meeting
The 11th meeting of JCA-ICT&CC will be held on 10 October 2012 (12:00-14:00, Geneva
Time) and online to coincide with the next meeting of Working Party 3 of ITU-T Study Group 5
to be held from 8 to 12 October 2012.
Annex A
List of participants
Ahmed Zeddam
Co-Convener
Dave Faulkner
Co-Convener
Cristina Bueti
ITU/TSB
Bilel Jamoussi
ITU/TSB
Colette Maloney
European Commission
Molly Webb
Climate Group
Phil Rushton
BT
Laura Reyes
Datec Technologies Ltd
Haruo Okamura
ITU-AJ
Olivier Munger
Prompt
Jean Manuel Canet
Orange
Ikko Futami
MIC
Takeshi Origuchi
NTT
Takafumi Hashitani
Fujitsu
Daniel Kharitonov
Juniper Networks
Vin Sumner
Clicks and Links (UK)
Yong-Woon Kim
ETRI
Hyojin Kim
ETRI
Jeongil Yim
ETRI
Fredrik Guldbrandsson
Ericsson
Kari Lang
Nokia
Daniela Torres
Telefónica
Meng Fan Tao
Huawei Technology
Osama Namikawa
Hitachi
Gilbert Buty
Alcatel Lucent
Eyebiyi Elieth
Benin
Raffaele Bolla
CNIT
Flavio Cucchietti
Telecom Italia
Roger Simakumu
RDC
Keith Dickerson
UK
Dong Yang Tan
Huawei
Dominique Roche
Orange/ETSIATTM