Focus Group
Bridging the Gap: From Innovations to
Standards
Ajay Ranjan Mishra
Chairman-Focus Group
ITU-T
Head of Industry Environment –
India & Emerging Markets
Nokia Siemens Networks
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FG from Innovation to Standards
•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
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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
OPEN
IIT, Mumbai
WG 2
• Item 2
• Item 5
WG: Chair
Ramy Ahmad
TR, Egypt
WG 3
• Item 4
• Item 6
WG: Chair
Arun Bedi,
DELL, Singapore
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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)
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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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Tunisie Telecom Hosts FG meeting
• FG Meeting in Tunisia organized by the Tunisie Telecom. The
participation was more than 75 members on day 1 & 50+ members
on day 2
• Attended by more than 20-25 nationals from Africa
• More than 12 inputs received for the meetings
• List of Innovations that could be possible standardized started.
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/innovation/Pages/default.aspx
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Future Meetings
December 2012: Mexico
February 2013: India
May 2013: US
Final Report to TSAG: June 2013
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WELCOME
– to JOIN & CONTRIBUTE
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