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ITU…connecting the world
CONGRESS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS ON INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS IN THE
BICENTENNIALBICENTENNIAL
21 September 201021 September 2010Buenos Aires, ArgentinaBuenos Aires, Argentina
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Introduction to ITU
Founded in 1865, oldest specialized agency of the UN
Standards making one of the ITU’s first activities
191 Member States, 780 private sector entities
HQ Geneva, 11 regional offices, 760 staff / 80 nationalities
Named as one of the world’s ten most enduring institutions by Booz Allen
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ITU Structure
ITU-R: Global radio spectrum and satellite orbits
ITU-D: Bridging the digital divide
ITU-T: Without ITU standards you couldn’t make a call or surf the Internet
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Enabling Environment
ITU works with regulators/policy makers and industry to develop/share guidelines and best practices as well as global standards
Global Symposium for Regulators
ICT Regulation Toolkit
ITU Study Groups
Capacity-building in developing and least developed countries
Workshops and symposiums
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ICT Development
ITU has mandate from membership to help spread ICT connectivity – connect the unconnected
Building capacities in developing and least developed countries
Working with ITU government membership and industry partners
Executing agency of UN for ICT projects
Mobilizing resources and partners for implementation
InternationalTelecommunicationUnion
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Global Cybersecurity AgendaLaunched 17 May 2007
ITU framework for global action:
1. Legal Measures
2. Technical and Procedural Measures
3. Organizational Structures
4. Capacity Building
5. International Cooperation
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Managing Spectrum
World Radiocommunication Conference 2007
Spectrum for future mobile communications
Spectrum for broadcasting Satellite communications Spectrum for advanced aeronautical
communications Global Maritime issues Protect frequencies for earth-
exploration satellites to monitor resources, emergencies, meteorology, climate change
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Broadband multimedia
First IMT standards – IMT-2000
Now more than a billion IMT-2000 (3G) subscribers
IMT-Advanced
Global platform for the next generation of mobile services
Fast data access, unified messaging and broadband multimedia – exciting new interactive services
IMT Background
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What is IMT-Advanced?
IMT-Advanced systems will:
Provide access to a wide range of services supported by (increasingly packet-based) mobile and fixed networks.
Support low to high mobility applications and a wide range of data rates in multiple user environments.
Provide for high quality multimedia applications within a wide range platforms with significant improvement in performance and QoS.
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Key features
A high degree of interoperability worldwide
Flexibility to support a wide range of services in a cost efficient manner
Service compatibility: IMT and fixed networks
Interworking with other radio access systems
User equipment suitable for worldwide use
Worldwide roaming capability
Enhanced peak data rates to support advanced services and applications
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ITU Standards in Action
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Recommendations become mandatory if adopted in law
Private standards may confuse users and consumers
ITU’s broad range of stakeholders, and robust processes provide the basis for consensus across sectors and countries
Market-driven international standards, based on objective information and knowledge.
Meet the needs and concerns of all relevant stakeholders
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ITU-T Recommendations: Not all standards are equal
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Member State Participation
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Region A - The Americas (216)Region B - Western Europe (178)Region C - Eastern Europe and Northern Asia (73)Region D - Africa (182)Region E - Asia and Australasia (460)
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Strategic Objectives
1. Develop and publish timely global standards
2. Identify relevant areas for future standardization projects
3. Provide the most attractive forum for standardization in the interest of the membership
4. Promote value of ITU-T to attract increased membership
5. Disseminate information and know-how
6. Cooperate and collaborate with other Sectors and other entities
7. Provide support and assistance to the membership, in particular developing countries
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ITU-T Key Features Open, transparent, consensus based, fast
working, public/private partnership Technical standards developed by industry
members, when consensus placed on website and if no comments after 4 weeks is in effect approved by 191 governments
ITU standards are therefore truly global, open standards, unlike those of many other standards bodies, fora or consortium that claim to produce global and open standards, available free of charge
Publicly available database of products and services meeting ITU standards
Organizing interoperability events to prove interoperability of different vendors equipment
Common IPR policy with ISO and IEC (FRAN)
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Importance of Global Standards
Global Standards essential in a complex world Standards make things easier Essential for international communications and
global trade Drive competitiveness, for individual businesses
and world economy Help organisations with their efficiency,
effectiveness, responsiveness and innovation Lower prices and increase availability by
reducing technical barriers and promoting compatibility between systems and networks
Manufacturers, network operators and consumers benefit
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2009: A year of highlights
Despite financial crisis many study groups saw increased participation
Remote participation on the rise 120 e-meetings
First global standard for a fully networked home ITU-T Rec. G.9960; ex G.hn
Universal charger for mobile phones Methodology to measure the impact
of ICTs on climate change with the involvement of 20 other organizations
Handbooks on Optical fibres, cables and systems, converged networks, and the security manual
Study Groups
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2009: A year of highlights
30 events, 2500 participants Implementation of WTSA-08
decisions Bridging the standardization gap ICTs and climate change Cybersecurity NGN Accessibility
First fully virtual ITU symposium on ICTs and climate change Organised together with the KCC
and TTA
5th Fully Networked Car
Event distribution
Geneva25% Arab
17%
Americas17%
Europe10%
Asia /Pacific17%Africa
14%
Workshops
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Recent Activities in the Region
Regional Group for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santo Domingo, 6-9 July 2010 Regional ITU Consultation on Conformance Assessment and Interoperability, Quito, Ecuador,
6 July 2010 ITU-T Study Group 5 Buenos Aires, Argentina 12-16 April 2010 ITU-T Workshop on "Interactions of Voiceband Signal Processing Functions and their End-to-
End Coordination" Germantown, Maryland, USA, 21 April 2010 Seminar on ITU-T hot topics for standardization and Kaleidoscope event: Innovations for
Digital Inclusion Mar del Plata, Argentina, 31 August - 01 September 2009
ITU-T Study Groups 11 and 13 and IPTV-GSI Mar del Plata, Argentina 2-12 September 2009
ITU panel “Globalization of Standardization and Making the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Accessible” at the 18th Biennial TDI Conference “Where Access begins” Washington DC, USA, 30 July - 1 August 2009
ITU Symposium on ICTs and Climate Change and Forum on "Implementation of decisions of the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA-08)“ Quito, Ecuador, 7-10 July 2009
Regional Seminar on the economic and financial aspects of telecommunications for Member Countries of the Study Group 3 Regional Group for Latin America and Caribbean (SG3RG-LAC) (former TAL Group) Lima, Peru, 23 - 24 June 2009
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Region’s Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen (ITU-T)
Bruce Gracie, Chairman TSAG, Industry Canada, Canada Stephen J. Trowbridge, VC TSAG, Alcatel-Lucent, USA Marcos Pérez García VC, SG2, Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de
Cuba, S.A. (ETECSA), Cuba Steven D. Lind, VC SG 2, AT&T, USA Leslie Joseph Martinkovics, VC, SG3, Verizon, USA Héctor Mario Carril, VC SG5, Secretaria de comunicaciones,
Argentina Arthur Webster, Chairman SG 9, US Department of Commerce, USA Charles A. Dvorak, Chairman SG 12, AT&T, USA Júlio Cesar Fonseca, VC SG15, Regional focus group coordination,
ANATEL, Brazil Mark T. Neibert, VC SG16, Ygomi, USA Antonio Guimaraes, VC SG17, ANATEL, Brazil
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The network knocks at your door
Home Networking to achieve interoperability on a global scale PC World (US) 13.12.08:
“The powerful world standards organization …[ITU].. has reached agreement on G.hn a set of specifications that would encompass phone lines, power lines, and coaxial cable to provide HDTV room to room…”
Now: G.hn for Smart Grid
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Future networks
Focus Group Collect and identify
visions of future networks
Next Meetings: Geneva; Brazil; India
Report will be presented to Council Dedicated Group on Internet Governance
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ITU-T’s quantum leaps in speech, audio and video quality
Video codec H.264 in HDTV, iPhone, Blu-ray, 3G, etc
2008 Primetime Emmy award
Call for technical contributions for next generation
Extension of work on speech coding:Wider bandwidths, richer
user experience
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Intelligent Transport Systems
New work:Wideband
communication in cars
Vehicle gateway protocol
ITU, ISO and IEC and Geneva Motor Show Annual Event
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Safety in the cyber world
Identity management (IdM) Security standards for:
NGN IPTV Home networks, Ubiquitous sensor networks Mobiles Traceback Countering spam (EVCert)
Road map of security standards: itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/ict/
Cybersecurity Information Exchange Framework (CYBEX)
Security Workshop, Geneva 6-7 December 2010
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Accessibility
Champions principles Universal Design enshrined in the UN Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Includes accessibility features in all standards
Strong advocacy focus Group to coordinate activities
on accessibility ITU led Dynamic Coalition on
the Internet and Accessibility at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
Proposed new Focus Group on Interoperability of Accessibility protocols
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ICTs and Climate Change
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon: "ITU is one of the very important stakeholders in the area of climate change."
Participants in Focus Group ICT and Climate Change
Focus Group on ICTs and Climate Change
ITU led Dynamic Coalition on Internet and Climate change at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF)
Participation in COP15 Establishing close liaison
with UNFCCC
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Universal charger
ITU-T Recommendation L.1000
Delivers 50% reduction in standby energy consumption, will eliminate up to 82,000 tonnes of redundant chargers, and cuts GHG emissions by at least 13.6 million tonnes CO2 annually
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Common Methodology Common methodology for measuring
ICT carbon footprint Without, it will be impossible to
provide meaningful comparisons Helps to establish the business case to
go green Over 20 organizations participate in
the ITU group Standards on life cycle environmental
impact of ICTs goods and services, and ICT projects, November 2010
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Economic and policy issues
SG 3 deals with international tariff and charging
Recommendations on charging and accounting for International Internet Connectivity
Recommendations on charging and accounting for international mobile telephony
Guidelines for resolution of disputes regarding charging and accounting
Development of charging and accounting/settlement mechanisms
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Technology Watch: Scouting for future technologies …
Recent papers: Remote collaboration tools Ubiquitous Sensor Networks ICTs and Climate Change Telepresence High-performance video-conferencing Intelligent Transport Systems Lawful interception (LI) Next-Generation Networks (NGNs) and energy
efficiency Mobile applications Batteries for portable ICT devices
Upcoming: ICTs and food security, network robotics, telebiometrics
New Briefing Reports published in ITU News
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Chief Technology Officer (CTO) meeting
Nineteen major CTOs Recognition of need
for review of standardization landscape
Results will be presented at next meeting, Paris, 29 October.
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Next generation electricity
Chief Technology Officer Group highlighted Smart Grid as a priority area
Focus Group on Smart Grid will Identify impacts on standards
development Investigate ITU-T study items Familiarize ITU-T with emerging
attributes of smart grid Encourage collaboration between
ITU-T membership and utilities
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In the cloud
WTPF participants highlighted Cloud as a priority area
Focus Group on Cloud Computing will Identify potential impacts on ITU-
T standards development Investigate future study items Analyze how interoperability can
be assured Familiarize ITU-T with emerging
attributes and challenges of cloud computing
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Kaleidoscope 2010
Pune, India, 13-15 December 2010
Exhibition by local universities
Best paper awards $10,000
Proceedings IEEE Xplore online library
New this year: Standards Corner (tutorial) Jules Verne’s Corner
(SciFi writers and dreamers)
Additional info: itu-kaleidoscope.org/2010
Associated events: Focus Group on Future Networks
Third IPTV Interoperability event
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ITU and IPv6 Massive deployment of
Internet-related resources=depletion of IPv4 addresses.
ITU actively promoting IPv6 deployment
New ITU-T/D Group established two CGs
Next meeting 1-2 September Open participation
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The International Telecommunication Regulations
ITRs catalyzed global telecoms liberalization and facilitated Internet
Adopted to:
Provide a basis for the provision & operation of international telecommunication services
To designate responsibilities of Admins and Operators
To provide general principles, even for commercially-negotiated arrangements
Revision under discussion since PP98
WTSA and WCIT 5-30 November 2012
ITRs: Abrogate, revise or update? New issues?
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Conformity assessment benefits manufacturers, service providers, users and regulators and supports sustainable development.
Conformity gives confidence and facilitates access to world markets.
All successful SDOs have testing specifications; conformance testing to determine compliant products; and interoperability testing.
Conformity and interoperability
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ITU’s Conformity and Interoperability Programme
Four Action Lines:
1. Creation of a conformity database
2. Organisation of interoperability events
3. Develop human resources capacity through workshops and tutorials
4. Assist establishment of test facilities in developing countries
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The ITU-T “Pilot” Conformity Database
Will provide a source of what products have been successfully tested to ITU-T Recommendations.
Pilot conformity database follows ISO/IEC 17000-series: Requires the issue of a Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity (SDoC) (ISO/IEC 17050)
Voluntary and free, open to ITU members. Non-members may participate on a case by case basis
Testing 1st, 2nd, 3rd party accredited labs conformity
assessment 3rd party accredited certifiers
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IPTV Interop events
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Capacity Building
Develop expertise in conformity and interoperability testing
In collaboration with BDT Plan to organize tutorials at established
test centres around the world Joint workshops planned with UNIDO
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Establishment of conformity test centres in
developing countries
Need to build partnerships with relevant organizations: UNIDO, ISO (CASCO), IEC, IAF and ILAC
UNIDO has a programme to assist in establishment of accreditation bodies and conformity test centres in developing countries
UNIDO offer of collaboration
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Regional Consultation Meetings 2010
Americas – 6 July, Quito, Ecuador
Africa – 30-31 July, Nairobi, Kenya
Asia Pacific – 16-17 September – Australia
Continue the discussion to better implement the four action lines adopted by Council 2009.
Improve the ITU-T pilot conformity database to meet the requirements of all the stakeholders in the spirit of the WTSA-08 Resolution 76 addressing the needs of developing countries on this subject.
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Business Plan
Council endorsed need to develop a business plan for the long term implementation of the programme
Need to first determine the demand for each of the action lines
Amend programme in light of further consultations
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Admission of Sector Members from
Developing countries
ITU Council supports proposal to reduce cost to 1/16 of the Sector Member contributory unit = CHF 3,975Proposal to be reviewed at PP’10
Admission of academia, universities and their associated research establishments
ITU Council supports proposal to reduce cost to 1/32 of the Sector Member contributory unit = CHF 1,987Academia Member would not participate in approval process of Recommendations. Proposal to be reviewed at
PP’10
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Plenipotentiary Conference 20104 to 22 October 2010
The key event at which ITU Member States decide on ITU’s future role of the organization.
Sets the Union's general policies, adopts four-year strategic and financial plans and elects the senior management team, the members of Council and the members of the Radio Regulations Board.