ITU Workshop on “Quality of Service and
Quality of Experience of Multimedia Services in
Emerging Networks”
(Istanbul, Turkey, 9-11 February 2015)
ITU-T overview
Global standards by consensus
Hiroshi OTA
Advisor, ITU/TSB
hiroshi.ota@itu.int
ITU: UN Agency for ICTs
ITU : enabling communication since 1865
1865
2015
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ITU150 in 2015
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This year, the International Telecommunications Union will be 150 years old!
What happened in 1865? The first International Telegraph Convention was signed in Paris and
the International Telegraph Union was established.
To celebrate this anniversary, several initiatives are organized all along the 2015. Theme for
all celebrations in 2015 is “Telecommunications and ICTs: drivers of innovation”
How to participate in the celebrations?
Two examples:
ITU150 Awards - Calls for nominations
Deadline: 15 March 2015
Calls for national celebrations in 2015
ITU membership is invited to share
national activities organized for ITU150th
Anniversary.
(More information can be found here)
Delegates at the first International Telegraph Conference (Paris, 1865)
ITU: a unique Membership
193 Member States and regulatory bodies
750+ companies
88 Universities
and
Research
Establishments
Business
associations
International
organizations
NGOs
Leading Private Sector Members
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ITU’S network of academia members
88 universities in 41 countries
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Academia members
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Rights
Access to all ITU Study Groups
Submit contributions
Leading positions: rapporteur or editor
Unlimited participation of delegates
Benefits
 Working with Member States and
regulatory bodies from all around the
world
 Meeting key players in the ICT industry
 Partner with the most innovative research
institutes and universities
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ITU is international organization with an
established global presence
ITU 5 Elected Officials
760 Staff from 80 Countries
6 UN Official Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish
Headquarters in Geneva with Liaison Office in New York
Regional offices in Addis Ababa, Bangkok, Brasilia, Cairo
Area offices in Bridgetown, Dakar, Harare, Jakarta, Moscow, Santiago, Tegucigalpa, Yaoundé
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ITU’s 3 Sectors: Standards, Radiocommunications and
Development
ITU-T Standardization
ITU-D Development
ITU-R Radiocommunication
ITU-T
• The Study Groups of ITU-T assemble experts
from around the world to develop
international standards known as ITU-T
Recommendations
• Standards are critical to the interoperability of
ICTs and whether we exchange voice, video or
data messages
• Standards reduce costs
ITU-D
• To foster international cooperation and solidarity
in the delivery of technical assistance and in the
creation, development and improvement of
telecommunication/ICT equipment and networks
in developing countries
• To facilitate and enhance telecommunication/ICT
development by offering, organizing and
coordinating technical cooperation and assistance
activities
ITU-R
• Plays a vital role in the global management of the
radio-frequency spectrum and satellite orbits
– Limited natural resources which are increasingly in
demand from a large and growing number of services
• Its mission is to ensure the rational, equitable,
efficient and economical use of the radiofrequency spectrum by all radiocommunication
services
Introduction of ITU-T
ITU-T’s strategic goals
 To develop interoperable, nondiscriminatory international standards
(ITU-T Recommendations)
 To assist in bridging the standardization
gap between developed and developing
countries
 To extend and facilitate international
cooperation among international,
regional and national standardization
bodies
Chaesub Lee
TSB Director
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Bridging the Standardization Gap (BSG)
• BSG is one of the three strategic goals of ITU-T
• The gap is defined as the disparities in the ability of
developing countries, relative to developed ones, to access,
implement, contribute to and influence international ICT
standards, specifically ITU‐T Recommendations.
• Bridging the standardization gap: PP Res 123, WTSA Res 44
and WTDC Res 47
• Details will be provided in the following presentation
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ITU-T collaborates with
standards organizations to avoid overlap
40+ formal
partnerships
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ITU-T work areas
ITU-T Study Groups
SG2 Operational aspects
SG3 Economic and policy issues
SG5 Environment and climate change
SG9 Broadband cable and TV
SG11 Protocols and test specifications
SG12 Performance, QoS and QoE
SG13 Future networks & clould
SG15 Transport, access and home
SG16 Multimedia
SG17 Security
Some hot topics from each Study
Group
SG2
Numbering Resources
ITU-T Recommendation E.164
“International public telecommunication numbering plan”
Turkey +90
Current Issues:
• Misuse/misappropriation of numbers (WTSA
Resolution 61)
• CPND, CLI and OI (WTSA Res. 65)
• character input methods for various ICT
devices
• New application of E.212
• Telecom Finance
• Telecommunication Management
• Telecommunications for disaster relief/early
warning, network resilience and recovery
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SG2
Human Factors, usability and accessibility for
persons with disabilities
• Human Factors and ICT accessibility for persons with
disabilities
– Question 4/2 “Human Factors related issues
for the improvement of the quality of life through international
telecommunications”
– Usability for all, persons who may or may not have disability.
 Joint Coordination Activity for
Accessibility and Human Factors:
raises awareness and contributes to better
collaboration and cooperation among
Study Groups
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SG2
ITU’s most famous accessibility standard
• ITU-T E.161 (2001): “Bump”
on key “5”
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“To assist blind and visually
impaired people… and others
to facilitate dialing under low
light conditions”
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Tariff and Accounting
Photo by Steve Schroeder, CC BY-NC 2.0
SG3
Current Issues:
International Internet
connectivity (IIC)
International Mobile
Roaming
Alternative Calling
Procedures
Dispute Resolution
Economics of Transition to
IPv6
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SG5
ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change
Electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic effects
ICTs and climate change (including, inter alia, e-waste, energy efficiency,
climate change adaptation and mitigation)
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SG5
E-waste is the fastest growing waste
stream
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million metric tons of electrical and
electronic equipment put in the
market
million metric tons e-waste
disposed of worldwide
For every 1 million cell phones that are recycled, 16 tons of
copper, 350 kilos of silver, 34 kilos of gold and 15 kilos of
palladium can be recovered.
Source: United Nations University and United States Environmental Protection Agency
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SG5
One adapter size fits all
Saves 82,000 tons of e-waste per year
Saves at least 13.6 million tonnes of CO2 emissions annually
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SG5
Recycling Rare Metals in ICT Products
20 Rare Metals in a mobile phone
1 ton gold ore  5 grams
1 ton of used mobile phones  400 grams
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SG5
Best Practices for Green Data Centres
Best practices related to optimum design and construction;
Efficient use and management of data centres, taking into account both
power and cooling equipment.
For example, applying best
practices to cooling could
reduce the energy
consumption of a typical data
centre by more than 50%.
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Common set of methodologies for the environmental
impact assessment of ICT
SG5
 Without, it will be impossible to provide meaningful comparisons
 Helps to establish the business case to go green
Developed in cooperation with UNFCCC Secretariat, EC and
over 40 other organizations etc..
4 Recommendations published - available on the ITU-T website:
• L.1400 Overview and general principles
• L.1410 Environmental impact of ICT goods, networks and services
• L.1420 Environmental impact of ICT in organizations
• L.1430 Environmental impact of ICT projects
2 Recommendations under preparation:
• L.1440 Environmental impact of ICT in cities (consent in 2014)
• L.1450 Environmental impact of ICT in countries (consent expected in 2015)
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SG9
Television and integrated broadband cable networks
• Telecommunication systems for broadcasting of television and sound programs
(e.g., IPTV)
• Use of CATV networks to provide interactive video services, telephone and data
services, including Internet access (e.g. cable modems, set top boxes, APIs)
• Quality assessment of video and multimedia over cable networks (IRG AVQA
launched in December 2013, jointly managed by SG9, SG12 and ITU-R SG6)
• Transmission of Large Screen Digital Imagery (LSDI and new services such as
3DTV and Ultra High Definition TV)
• Conditional Access (e.g. protection of subscription services etc.)
• Smart Cable Television (FG on Smart Cable TV successfully concluded in
December 2013)
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SG11
Signalling requirements, protocols and Test
specifications
Lead Study Group on:
• signalling and protocols
• machine-to-machine (M2M) signalling and protocol
• test specifications, conformance and interoperability testing
Parent Study Group for
• FG M2M service layer (successfully concluded 12/2013)
• JCA on Conformance and Interoperability testing
Research area:
• Signaling protocols for IP-based networks, NGN, M2M, IoT, Cloud Computing, Smart Grid, SDN
• Requirements and test specifications (e.g. SIP-IMS profile, cloud interoperability testing, NGN, etc.)
• Testing laboratory recognition procedure
• Measurements of Internet speed
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SG11
SG13
SG16
Miniaturization and cost per unit
Internet of Things
Time
“The Internet of Things” (ITU, 2005)
www.itu.int/internetofthings
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SG12
Performance, QoS and QoE
• Lead study group on
– Quality of service and quality of experience
– Driver distraction and voice aspects of car communications
• QoS and QoE for the full spectrum of terminals, networks and services
ranging from speech over fixed circuit-based networks to multimedia
applications over networks that are mobile and packet based
• Operational aspects of QoS and QoE, the end-to-end quality aspects of
interoperability, and the development of multimedia quality assessment
methodologies, both subjective and objective
• Hot topics and details will be given in the following presentations
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SG13
Future networks including cloud computing, mobile and
next-generation networks
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Lead study group on
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Mobility management and NGN
Cloud computing
Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
Big data in the context of clould computing
Output from SG13 includes
– Y.3001 (05/2011) “Future networks: Objectives and design goals”
– Y.2001 (12/2004) “General overview of NGN” with its revised functional
architecture Y.2012 (04/2010) “Functional requirements and architecture of next
generation networks”
– Y.3501(05/2013) “Cloud computing framework and high-level requirements”
– Y.2060 (06/2012) “Overview of the Internet of things” and Y.3300 (06/2014)
“Framework of Software-Defined Networking”
– Y.3300 (06/2014) “Framework of software-defined networking”
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SG13
ITU-T Cloud Computing
• From own to lease
• Growth opportunity for
Telcos
• Security, Audit, and Privacy
• Inter-Cloud
• Load sharing
• Disaster recovery
The Economist, Oct 2009
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SG13
Cloud Computing
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SG15
ITU Internet Broadband Access &Transport Standards
Access:
 ADSL: ITU-T G.992.x
 FTTX:
 XGPON (10G) ITU-T G.987.x
 NG-PON2 (40G) ITU-T G.989.x
 Bendable fibers: ITU-T G.657
 G.fast: ITU-T G.9700, G.9701
Optical Transport:
 Beyond 100G bit/s
 Ethernet/MPLS-TP for operators
 Synchronization for packet
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SG15
Smart Grid Communication
ITU-T G.9901 (04/2014): Narrow-band OFDM power line communication transceivers - Power spectral density (PSD)
specification.
ITU-T G.9902 (G.hnem) (10/2012): Narrow-band OFDM power line communication transceivers – G.hnem Cenelec A,
B, CD, and FCC.
ITU-T G.9903 (G3-PLC) (02/2014): Narrow-band OFDM power line communication transceivers – G3-PLC Cenelec A,
B, FCC and ARIB bandplan.
ITU-T G.9904 (PRIME) (10/2012): Narrow-band OFDM power line communication transceivers – PRIME Cenelec A.
ITU-T G.9905 (08/2013): Centralized metric-based source routing
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SG16
Multimedia
Advanced video coding: ITU-T H.264
Used to compress billions of clips on YouTube, but
also high-definition content on Blu-ray Discs
High Efficiency Video Coding: ITU-T H.265
Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (ITU-T,
ISO/IEC); reduces H.264 data rate by 50%
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SG16
IPTV
• ITU-T suite of IPTV standards discussed – global & open standards, end to
end solution
• Global Standards Initiative (IPTV-GSI)
– http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/gsi/iptv/Pages/default.aspx
• ITU organized interoperability testing and/or showcasing events in Geneva,
Singapore, India, Brazil, United Arab Emirates since 2010
• 3rd ITU IPTV Application Challenge launched with International Paralympic
Committee (IPC)
• ITU IPTV IPv6 Global Testbed (I3GT) connects sites worldwide to test
various aspects of ITU-T’s IPTV standards and related technologies.
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SG16
Multimedia and Accessibility
for persons with disabilities
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SG16 - lead study group on telecommunication/ICT accessibility for
persons with disabilities.
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Question Q26/16 is the group specifically designated to deal with Accessibility to
Multimedia Systems and Services for persons with disabilities.
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responsible for developing (or assisting in the development of) multimedia
technical standards addressing accessibility needs of persons with disabilities
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It also reviews accessibility features included in telecom standards developed in
other Study Groups
Other groups of experts under SG16:
Focus Group on Audiovisual Media Accessibility (FG AVA)
successfully concluded in October 2013
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3rd ITU IPTV Application Challenge : Better quality of life with international standards:
an accessible world for all
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Connecting medics with patient data
ITU’s Personal Health Care
Standards: ITU-T H.810 (based on
Continua Health Alliance)
Gives interoperability guidelines for
personal health systems
32 new testing specifications for
conformance testing with > 1000 test
cases
Conformance and Interoperability
• One of ITU-T’s strategic objective is to produce nondiscriminatory, international interoperable standard
• Conformity to ITU standards significantly increase the
probability of interoperability of tested equipment,
services and systems
• To ensure their interoperability, products from different
vendors should undergo conformity testing to standards:
– ITU-T conformity database: voluntary, informative showcasing of
products conformant to ITU-T Recommendations
• ITU C&I Portal includes all information about ITU activities
on C&I
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ITU Interop Events
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ITU IPTV Interop testing and/or showcasing events
G.hn Interop test event
APT/ITU joint Interop events on NGN and IPTV
E-health Interop events
Performance assessment of vehicle-mounted mobile phones in
conjunction with Hands-free Terminals (Geneva, 12-16 May 2014)
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SG17
Cybersecurity & Identity
Strengthen the confidence and security in the use of
ICTs
Strengthen cybersecurity and combat cyber threats
Identity Management
ITU X.509 compliant services
Child Online Protection
CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) V.1.2 – X.1303 bis
The Economist, July 2010
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ITU-T Focus Groups (FG)
• Quick development of specifications in
chosen areas
• Addressing industry needs
• Participation is open
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ITU-T Focus Groups
 Aviation Applications of Cloud Computing for Flight Data
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Monitoring (New!)
Digital Financial Services (New!)
Bridging the Gap: from Innovation to Standards
Smart Sustainable Cities
Smart Water Management
Disaster Relief Systems, Network Resilience and Recovery
(concluded 06/2014)
M2M Service Layer (concluded 12/2013)
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FG Aviation Cloud
Focus Group on Aviation Applications of Cloud Computing for Flight
Data Monitoring
Tasks include
 Collect and compile, store information on current state of cloud computing
and big data analytics
 Identify and describe aviation use cases and scenarios for cloud computing
and big data, e.g., flight management system; engine monitoring system;
integrated flight information system; automatic terminal information system;
weather information system
 Review feasibility of using commercial in-flight connectivity solutions to
enable aviation use cases for cloud computing and big data
 Work in close collaboration with the International Civil Aviation Organization
(ICAO) and the aviation community
FG Aviation Cloud
 Chairman Mrs Norizan Baharin, Malaysian Communications and
Multimedia Commission (MCMC); Vice-chairman Mr Zhu Yanbo,
Aviation Data Communication Corporation (ADCC), China​
 First Meeting: 1-3 December 2014, Impiana KLCC Hotel, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
 More information at http://itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ac
 Open to ITU members and non-members – Your participation and
input will be appreciated!
 ITU Contact : Mr Martin Adolph, martin.adolph@itu.int
 Subscribe to FG mailing list on website for updates
FG Digital Financial Services
GOAL: Recommend a standardization roadmap for interoperable digital financial
services for financial inclusion.
Objectives
 Identify the technology trends in digital financial services over the coming years and
how the role of various stakeholders in this ecosystem will evolve.
 Establish liaisons and relationships with other organizations.
 Describe the ecosystem for digital financial services.
 Suggest future ITU-T study items and related actions for various ITU-T study groups
 Identify successful use cases for implementation of secure digital financial services
including developing countries with a particular focus on the benefits for women.
 Study the best practices related to policies, regulatory frameworks, consumer and
fraud protection, business models and ecosystems for digital financial services.
 Work towards the creation of an enabling framework for digital financial services.
Focus Group on Digital Financial Services
(FGDFS)
 Chaired by Sacha Polverini, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
 First Meeting: 5 December 2014, ITU, Geneva
 Workshop on Digital Financial Services and Financial Inclusion: 4
December 2014, ITU, Geneva
 Create a platform for dialogue between telecom regulator, financial services
regulator and operators.
 ITU Contact : Vijay Mauree, Programme Coordinator, E-mail:
vijay.mauree@itu.int
 Web: http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/dfs/
 Subscribe to FG mailing list on website
 Terms of Reference
Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities
(FG-SSC)
 Established at ITU-T Study Group 5 meeting in Geneva in February 2013
 As an open platform for smart-city stakeholders to exchange knowledge in
the interests of identifying the standardized frameworks needed to support
the integration of ICT services in smart cities.
 Participation is open to all.
 Next and last meeting: 4-6 March 2015, Reading, United Kingdom,
preceded by a Forum on “Smart sustainable cities: a rising priority for
decision-makers” on 3 March
 Chaired by Silvia Guzmán Araña, Spain
 ITU Contact: Cristina Bueti, Adviser, E-mail: cristina.bueti@itu.int
 Web: itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/ssc/
 Subscribe to FG mailing list on website
FG Smart Sustainable Cities
Finalized technical reports and specifications approved by ITU-T Study Group 5 at its
meeting in Kochi, India (8-19 December 2014):
 Technical report on "An overview of smart sustainable cities and the role of information
and communication technologies"
 Technical report on "Smart sustainable cities: an analysis of definitions"
 Technical report on "Smart water management in cities"
 Technical report on "Electromagnetic field (EMF) considerations in smart sustainable
cities"
 Technical specifications on "Overview of key performance indicators in smart sustainable
cities"
Other 19 technical reports and specifications are under development:
 Areas of study include: smart infrastructure, smart buildings, climate change adaptation,
cyber-security and resilience, integrated management, engaging stakeholders, key
performance indicators, standardization gaps… and more.
Hosted by
at
Symantec Executive Briefing Centre
350 Brook Drive | Green Park, Reading
RG2 6UH | UK – Building 3
This forum on “Smart sustainable cities: a rising priority for decision-makers” will:
 Demonstrate how the strategic application of ICTs can help cities become
smarter and more sustainable, by providing digital solutions that enhance the
environment, improve quality of life and enable energy efficiency achievements;
 Leverage the role of policies and standards in the fostering of smart sustainable
cities worldwide.
Opening remarks will be delivered by:
 Lord Errol, Member of the House of Lords, United Kingdom
 Alok Sharma, Member of Parliament, United Kingdom
REGISTER NOW:
itu.int/en/ITU-T/Workshops-and-Seminars/Pages/201503/forum-ssc.aspx
Organized by:
ITU-T Output
3500 ITU-T Recommendations available in
PDF for free download
ITU Workshops
Technical papers
Technology Watch Reports
ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conferences
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TechWatch to publish your research
 TechWatch Reports identify ICT hot topics
 Output contributed to creation of new Focus Groups, Study Group Questions, workshops, etc.
 Widely recognized inside and outside ITU
http://itu.int/techwatch
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Climate Change Reports:
Identifying standards and policy needs
http://itu.int/climatechange/publications.html
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ITU Kaleidoscope academic conferences
• International events bringing
academia, governments, and
industry together
• Brainstorming on future ICT
networks and services
• Rigorous, double-blind, peerreview process
• Top 3 papers win prize money
totaling USD$ 10,000
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ITU Kaleidoscope 2014
Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation
3-5 June 2014
34 accepted papers (out of 98 submitted) were presented at
the conference, published in the conference proceedings & in
IEEE Xplore, and considered for publication in a special
edition of IEEE Communication Magazine
3 Keynote Speakers
3 Invited Papers
2 Special Sessions
2 Side events on Education about Standardization
ITU Kaleidoscope 2015
Barcelona, Spain
2-4 December 2015
Call for Papers will be published on 9 February
Deadline for submission of papers: 8 June 2015
http://itu-kaleidoscope.org/2015
… featuring
Kaleidoscope 2013 held in Japan
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TSB Director’s Ad hoc Group on
Education about Standardization (1/2)
 The need to address international ICT standardization in academic curricula is vital for the students of today, as they will
become the experts driving the standardization processes of tomorrow.
 It aims to investigate academia’s approach toward ICT standardization, with a view to increasing the significance
assigned to the subject in academic curricula.
Last meeting: back to back with ITU Kaleidoscope 2014
http://itu.int/go/standardseducation
Workshops on Education about Standardization
are organized jointly with academia and relevant institutions interested in collaborating
with ITU-T to advance standards education worldwide.
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TSB Director’s Ad hoc Group on
Education about Standardization (2/2)
• Secretariat Mailbox: tsbstdsedu@itu.int
• Mailing list: standardsedu@lists.itu.int
How to subscribe to the mailing list:
• An account is needed…
• Members: use a TIES account (members-only)
– For creating/managing TIES accounts, see http://itu.int/TIES/
• Non-members: create or use a Guest account
– For instruction on creating a Guest account, see http://itu.int/ITU-T/edh/faqsguest.html
• Once you have a TIES or Guest account, you can subscribe to the mailing
list using the ITU-T Electronic Registration and Subscription Service:
– http://itu.int/ITU-T/services
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Accessibility and
ITU-T standardization 1/2
• Information handling capability varies for all ICT users
• Everyone can benefit from accessibility standards
• ITU-T’s accessibility work ensures that all newly developed standards
contain the necessary elements to make services and features usable
for people with as broad range of capabilities as possible
• Standards should also describe suitable methods of media delivery for
people with disabilities, and are therefore essential for the provision
of services accessible for all
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ITU and Accessibility
• Champions principles of Universal Design enshrined in the UN
Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• Includes accessibility features in all standards
• Strong advocacy focus
• Regular
workshops
and demos,
showcase
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Accessibility and
ITU-T standardization 2/2
Other experts groups
(not mentioned under the Study Group section)
• Intersector Rapporteur Group on Audiovisual Media Accessibility (IRGAVA) (newly launched 25 February 2014):
studies topics related to audiovisual media accessibility and aims at developing
draft Recommendations for "Access Systems" that can be used for all media
delivery systems, including broadcast, cable, Internet, and IPTV.
• Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability (DCAD) on Internet
Governance:
facilitates interaction and ensures that ICT accessibility is organized workshops and
activities at IGF events.
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4th ITU Green Standards Week
22-26 September 2014 – Beijing, China
Main Purpose:
• to raise awareness of the importance and opportunities
of using ICT standards to build a green economy and
shape smart sustainable cities.
Overview:
 Forum on Green ICT for a sustainable resource efficient economy
 Forum on E-waste: the inconvenient truth
 Forum on Setting the vision for smart sustainable cities
 Forum on Using EMF to achieve the smartest sustainable city
 Meeting of SG5 Regional Group for Asia and the Pacific
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ITU/WMO/UNESCO IOC Joint Task Force (JTF) on the use of
submarine cable systems for climate change monitoring and
disaster (tsunami) warning
The Initiative
The deep ocean is largely unknown….
 How could submarine cables be used as a real-time global
network to monitor climate change and to provide tsunami
warnings?
 A new generation of regional scientific cabled ocean
observatories is emerging at a few selected sites, but there is a
need and opportunity to extend observations and monitoring
over much wider area of the global oceans.
 Submarine telecommunication cables equipped with sensors
to measure key variables such as water temperature, pressure
and acceleration on the ocean floor are viewed as vital to
monitor climate change and to provide tsunami warnings.
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The Initiative
 “Using submarine telecommunications cables for ocean and
climate monitoring and disaster warning”
 ITU (International Telecommunication Union) with UNESCO’s
(United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organisation’s) IOC (Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission), and the WMO (World Meteorological
Organization)
 Established a task force
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ITU/WMO/UNESCO-IOC Joint Task Force
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Agreed on its Terms of Reference and was tasked, inter alia:
 with developing a strategy and roadmap that could lead to enabling the availability of
submarine repeaters equipped with scientific sensors for climate monitoring and disaster risk
reduction for tsunamis, and
 to analyse the potential renovation and use of out-of-service cables for this purpose.
It is composed of more than 70 international experts from the science, engineering, business and law
communities.
 Chair: Chris Barnes, Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria (Canada)
 Vice-Chair: David Meldrum, Research Fellow, Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS)
and JCOMM Observations Programme Area (UNESCO-IOC)
Details are at http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/climatechange/task-force-sc/Pages/default.aspx
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Alcatel-Lucent
AQEST
Arctic Fibre Inc
Axiom
BT Design
Bureau of Oceans, Environment and
Science, U.S. Department of State
Climate Associates
ETH-Zurich
European Seas Observatory NETwork
(ESONET)
France Telecom
France Telecom Marine
Fujitsu
Gartner Inc.
GNS Science
Huawei Marine Networks CO.,LTD
Intergovernmental Coordination Group
for the Tsunami Early Warning and
Mitigation System in the North Eastern
Atlantic, the Mediterranean and
connected Seas (ICG/NEAMTWS)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission of UNESCO
International Cable Protection Committee
(ICPC)
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International Telecommunication
Union (ITU)
International Tribunal for the Law
of the Sea
Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e
Vulcanologia (INGV)
Libya, Ministry of
Communications and Informatics
Mallin Consultants Ltd.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Greece
NASA
National Authority for
Management and Regulation in
Communication of Romania
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA)
NEC Corporation
Netherlands Institute for the Law
of the Sea, Utrecht University
School of Law
Ocean Observations Panel for
Climate (OOPC)
Puertos del Estado, Spain
Scottish Association for Marine
Science (SAMS)
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Sea-Bird Electronics
Sea Risk Solutions LLC
Swiss Maritime Navigation Office (SMNO)
TE SubCom
Teledyne ODI / Teledyne Oil & Gas
Telefónica
Telefónica International Wholesale Services
UN Office of Law and Sea (DOALOS)
University of Hawaii
University of Milano-Bicocca
University of Stockholm
University of Sydney
University of Tokyo
University of Victoria
University of Washington
U.S. Geological Survey
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
WILTSHIRE & GRANNIS LLP
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
World Ocean Council (WOC)
Zimbabwe National Water Authority
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