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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
Mr. T R Dua
Vice Chairman
GISFI
New Delhi
India
+91-98101 50000
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Global ICT Standardisation Forum for India
Standardization Research
• 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 www.gisfi.org

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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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
• Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
• Vihaan Networks Limited (VNL)
• Tejas Networks
• CISCO
• Communication Multimedia And Infrastructure (CMAI)
Association of India
• NIKSUN
• NEC
• Ericsson
• Motorola
• Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN)
• HUAWEI
• Samsung
• VERISERVE
• 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 institutions
Collaborators and Supporters
• 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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Leader Technical Standard
Commitee
Krishna Sirohi, I2TB-SPPL
Internet of Things (IoT)
• Chair: Balamurlidhar P, TCS
Cloud and Service-Oriented
Networks (CSeON)
• Chair: Parag Pruthi, NIKSUN
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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India heading to expand heavily into rural area with state of art infrastructure and broadband services.
New
Global
Standards
Existing
Standards
Additional
Needs
New URBAN Requirements
Rural
Challenges
Low ARPU
No Grid Power
Unique System
Needs
Cost effective
Energy Efficient
Wide spread extent Suitable Deployment
Architecture
Suitable engineering Extreme
Environment
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 !
Need New Products & Standards !!
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• 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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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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Industrial collaboration
Joint ICT solutions for industrial compatibility and
IPRs
Coherent and aligned ICT standards
Trade and
Regulatory convergence
Access to global markets
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Respond to market dynamics
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• 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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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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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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Companies
Consumers
Public Authorities
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 But how much?
 Can it be measured?
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• 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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The Challenge:
How to ensure an effective and efficient use of standardization to promote innovation?
Competitiveness and business
Public interests
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ICT STANDARDS
Private interests
Innovation and
Research
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Maintenance and
Availability
• 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).
IPR
• 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
• 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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• 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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Indian standards as a globally powerful technology transfer channel
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Drive innovation and competitiveness for
India by adapting global ICT standardization policy to Regional market and Industrial policy developments and vice versa
Coordinate and cooperate more closely to manage the regional effects of the global financial crisis on the ICT sector
Increase coherency, quality and consistency of ICT standards and cope with new challenges in standardization
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Significant benefits to economy
Cope with the dynamics of the rapidly changing global markets
Quick response to regional and global technological, economic and social factors www.gisfi.org

National Telecom Policy 2012 : As implemented by Govt. of India
Provides for :
 Creation of TSDO
 TSDO to include Govt., Industry, R&D centre, service provider and academia to meet national requirement like security needs.
 Help boost entrepreneurship
 Further help to create a major global manufacturing hub to achieve self sufficiency
 Would prepare for National contributions for incorporation of Indian
IPR’s/standards in Global Standards
It recognizes the role of standards in furthering the national development agenda while enhancing equity and inclusiveness
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Education with new technologies
Innovative
Research
Technology innovation through education and multidisciplinary activities
Dynamic networked businesses and value chains
Standardisation
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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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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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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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• 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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• 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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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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