1. Focus Group Bridging the Gap: From Innovations to Standards
Ajay Ranjan Mishra
Chairman-Focus Group
ITU-T
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2. Focus Group BTG: from Innovation to Standards
Set up at TSAG meeting of January 2012
Web
First meeting 19 March in Geneva
ICT Innovations Workshop on 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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3. 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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4. 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
Ajay Ranjan Mishra
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5. 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. WG 1 WG 2 WG 3 Working Groups Item 1 Item 3 Item 2 Item 5 Item 4
WG: Chair
Abhay Karandikar
IIT, Mumbai
WG: Chair
Ramy Ahmad
TR, Egypt
WG: Chair
Enbo Wang
KEA, China
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9. 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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10. 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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11. Innovation Application Challenge
Currently ITU is running an Innovation application challenge (for FG)
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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12. Current Outputs of FG Excellent Side Event @GSS – Dubai
Repository of Innovations with more than 200 innovations to be analyzed
FG working towards developing the criteria to analyze innovations
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13. Future Meetings March 2013: India May 2013: US or Africa
Final Report to TSAG: June 2013
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14. WELCOME – to JOIN & CONTRIBUTE
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