InternationalTelecommunicationUnion

WSIS FORUM 2009

ITU-T:ITU-T:Empowering global ICT Empowering global ICT

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SimSimãão Camposo Campos

Counsellor, ITU-T Study Group 16 Counsellor, ITU-T Study Group 16 “Multimedia”“Multimedia”

ITU-T

ITU-T Recommendations (=technical standards) are defining elements in information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure Whether we exchange voice, data or video messages, communications cannot take place without standards linking the sender and the receiverToday’s work extends well beyond the traditional areas of telephony to encompass a far wider range of information and communications technologies

ITU-T Structure

Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group

Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group

WTSA World TelecommunicationStandardization Assembly

Study GroupStudy Group SGSG

Workshops,Seminars,

Symposia…

IPR ad hoc

Working Party

Questions: Develop Recommendations

SGSG

WP WP WP

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Focus Group

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Highlights of current activities (1/4)

Climate ChangePower saving checklist for standards authors ITU Symposia on ICTs and Climate Change: London, Kyoto; two more planned for 2009 (Quito/July & Seoul/Sep).Focus Group concluded, ITU-T Study Group 5 will take the lead

Accessibility for persons with disabilitiesChecklist for standards authorsRecs for real-time text telephony, total conversation, etcWorkshopsJoint Coordination Activity on accessibility and human factorsDynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability (IGF)

Emergency TelecomsRec: Language independent prefix for emergency numbersRec: Child helpline Rec: Call prioritization, alerts

Highlights of current activities (2/2)

CybersecurityRecs giving: Definition of cybersecurity; a standardized way for vendors to supply security updates and guidelines on spyware; toolbox of technical measures to counter spam.

Identity management: Draft Recommendations ongoing on data model, interoperable framework, interchange framework, and entity authentication assurance, requirements

NGNWork progressing rapidly in ITURecs: requirements, architecture, OAM, signalling protocols, resource control, NNI signalling, NGN testing, and security

Highlights of current activities (3/4)

IPTV: Proceedings of IPTV FG collected. First Recs. approved. Video coding and next generation multimedia conferencing

Broadband access, packet based transport, optical transport and access

Interoperability & conformance testing (Res.76)

Bridging the standardization gapRegional forumsRemote participation

Highlights of current activities (4/4)Academia initiative: Kaleidoscope peer-reviewed academic conferences

Technology Watch briefing reports: the future Internet, grid computing, climate change, lawful interception, remote collaboration tools, telepresence, USN, CALM, etc

Workshops and seminars in the regions within a wider program set up to bridge the standardization gap

Assist developing countries in establishing regional or sub regional conformity and interoperability centres and in identifying human and institutional capacity-building and training opportunities in conformity and interoperability testing

Free ITU-T Recommendations very popular

Snapshot of ITU-T Membership191 Member States

300 Sector Members

125 Associates

Region Private sector - Contributory Units

Africa 4.16

Asia Pacific 41.04

Arab States 17.16

Europe and CIS 54.34

Americas 58.66

Private sector

Some recent and upcoming workshopsITU-T Workshop on "New challenges for Telecommunication Security Standardizations, Geneva, Switzerland, 9-10 February 2009

The Fully Networked Car Workshop - Workshop on ICTs in Motor Vehicles, PALEXPO, Geneva, Switzerland, 4-5 March 2009

Forum on Next Generation Network Standardization, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 7-10 April 2009

Forum on "Implementation of decisions of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly-08 (WTSA-08)" Accra, Ghana, 16-17 June 2009

ITU Symposium on ICTs and Climate Change, Quito, Ecuador, 8-10 July 2009

Kaleidoscope event: Innovations for Digital Inclusion, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 31 August – 1 September 2009

Workshop on Accessibility: Planned in Bamako, Mali, 13-15 Oct 2009 (TBC)

Technology WatchTechnology Watch surveys the ICT environment for new study topics

Technology Watch Briefing Reports provide an up-to-date assessment of promising new technologies. Recent papers:

The Future InternetDistributed Computing: Utilities, Grids & CloudsIntelligent Transport SystemsNGNs and energy efficiencyLawful Interception (LI) Remote collaboration tools Ubiquitous Sensor NetworksICTs and Climate ChangeTelepresenceIntelligent Transport Systems / CALM

Under study: speech technology; networked robotics; e-health

Kaleidoscope 2008

Innovations in NGN

Part of initiative to increase dialogue between academia/ITU

Aim to identify new topics for standardization

Geneva, 12-13 May: 220 participants

Organized with IEEE CommSoc as Technical Co-sponsor and supported by Cisco, Intel, the International Communications Foundation of Japan and Sun Microsystems. Over 140 papers submitted: 53 papers were presented The best three were awarded prizes totaling $10,000 kindly donated by Cisco. Included in a future special edition of the IEEE Communications Magazine.16 entrants received a Young Author Recognition Certificate

Kaleidoscope 2009

Innovations for Digital Inclusion Mar del Plata, 31 Aug – 1 Sep 2009

Technically co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society

83 paper proposals, 20 Lecture papers and 16 poster papers selected

Peer-reviewed by 80+ subject-matter experts

Prize fund for three best papers

10 nominees

Proceedings published in IEEE Explore

Strategic directionTruly global public/private partnership key strength

95% of work is done by private sector

Continuously adapting to market needs

Strong engagement with academia & research organizations

Academia initiative & Kaleidoscope events

Striving for stronger participation from developing countries

Remote participation; Regional forums on bridging the standardization gap

“ITU inside” concept: Mark to show conformance to ITU-T Recs.

Workshop programme attracts diverse audience, initiates new work

Consensus driven, open process

Very flexible

Fast, transparent procedures Start work: 1 day / few weeks

Develop work: weeks to 2-3 yrs

Approve work: average 2 months

AAP for technical standards (= 95% of work)

Common IPR Policy: ITU-T, ITU-R, ISO, IEC

ChallengesTo continue to reflect needs of the marketProliferation of industry forums: 300+ !Increase participation especially from developing countriesFigure for percentage reduction of power consumption in broadband technologies.

Agreed figure to form part of a Resolution from the upcoming WTSA-08.

Improve efficiency, appeal and convenience to members

Why participate?

Only UN agency dealing with ICT standards

Outreach to 191 countries

High credibility in emerging markets especially Africa, China and more recently India

Opportunities for exercising corporate social responsibilities

Excellent meeting facilities, convenient location

Open, transparent and flexible

Fast working – moves at the speed of industry

simao.campos@itu.int