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Update on IEC and developing countries

Update on IEC and developing countries. Françoise Rauser JCDCMAS Paris 2009-03-06. Membership and Affiliation. IEC facilitates participation. Reduced national dues: more members from developing and industrializing countries Participation in WTO workshops: more Affiliate Countries

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Update on IEC and developing countries

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  1. Update on IEC and developing countries Françoise Rauser JCDCMAS Paris 2009-03-06

  2. Membership and Affiliation

  3. IEC facilitates participation • Reduced national dues: more members from developing and industrializing countries • Participation in WTO workshops: more Affiliate Countries • Regional centres: more adoptions, more participation in technical work and CA activities • CAB: New guidelines for developing countries

  4. IEC regional centres: Asia-Pacific and Latin America APRC • New premises in Singapore • 6 staff members: technical function in a de-centralized way IEC-LARC • São Paulo since 2007 • 1 regional manager • Coordination of training, seminars and workshops

  5. IEC Family: 11 new countries (158)

  6. 6 new IEC National Committees ESTONIA (AM) FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY GREECE HUNGARY ICELAND (AM) INDIA INDONESIA IRAN IRELAND ISRAEL IRAQ ITALY JAPAN KAZAKHSTAN (AM) KENYA (AM) KOREA, DPR (AM) KOREA, REP. OF LATVIA (AM) LIBYA LITHUANIA (AM) LUXEMBURG MACEDONIA (AM) MALAYSIA MALTA (AM) MEXICO MONTENEGRO (AM) NETHERLANDS NEW ZEALAND NIGERIA (AM) NORWAY PAKISTAN PHILIPPINES POLAND PORTUGUAL QATAR ROMANIA RUSSIAN FEDERATION SAUDI ARABIA SERBIA & MONTENEGRO SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SOUTH AFRICA SPAIN SRI LANKA (AM) SWEDEN SWITZERLAND THAILAND TUNISIA (AM) TURKEY UKRAINE UK USA VIETNAM (AM) ALGERIA ARGENTINA AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA BAHRAIN (AM) BELARUS BELGIUM BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (AM) BRAZIL BULGARIA CANADA CHINA COLOMBIA (AM) CROATIA CUBA (AM) CYPRUS (AM) CZECH REP. DENMARK EGYPT

  7. 83Participating countries EUROPE Albania Moldova AMERICAS Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Belize Bolivia Costa Rica Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Panama Paraguay Peru Saint Lucia Saint Vincent & Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Uruguay Venezuela ASIA Afghanistan Armenia Bangladesh Bhutan Georgia Jordan Kyrgyzstan Lebanon Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Turkmenistan Yemen AFRICA Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Central African Rep. Chad Comoros Congo Côte d'Ivoire DRC Congo Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Rwanda Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe ASIA-PACIFIC Brunei Darussalam Cambodia Fiji Lao PDR Papua New Guinea *2002-10-10

  8. IEC free programme for developing countries • Participation: 5 new Affiliates (83) • Gambia, Central African Rep, Congo, Chad and Suriname (jan09) • Use of Standards: + 7500 in use by 60 countries (+7) Jan 09 • Adoption • in 31 Affiliate Countries • 3 new countries: Brunei, Zambia, Mongolia • Adoptions on line: http://www.iec.ch/affiliates

  9. Adoption of IEC IS by 31 Affiliate Countries Feb 09

  10. What’s new: AFSEC • An electrotechnical standardization commission in Africa (AFSEC) • 10 founding countries • South Africa, Kenya, Cote Ivoire, Nigeria, Senegal, Benin, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Ghana • President: Côte d’Ivoire • Vice Presidents • Technical work: Nigeria • Conformity Assessment: Kenya • NECs: Senegal • Secretariat: South Africa • Co-operation agreement with IEC to be signed

  11. Result: Affiliate Coordinator for Africa • An Affiliate Coordinator for Africa • Evah Oduor, AFSEC Vice President for CA • To assist Affiliate Leader and Secretariat for African issues • Co-chaired the DC workshop during GM

  12. Brazil: Workshop on EEE • Members and Affiliates: 27 countries • 65 participants • Case study from Brazil, Ghana and Sudan • IEC Strategy Group 1 on Energy efficiency and renewable energies • Efficient electrical energy transmission and distribution (TC8 /EDF) • IECEE PV Programme

  13. IEC workshops in Asia • TC100 workshop in Thailand (e-tech June08) • IECEE in Indonesia (e-tech June), Korea (e-tech July08) • IEC participates in standardization workshop in North Korea (e-tech Nov08) • IEC-CIGRE UHV Symposium in India (held Jan 09) • IEC Vice President at roundtable with Malaysian industries (e-tech Jan09) • Regional Indonesian event on energy efficiency (e-tech Jan09)

  14. 72nd IEC GM in Brazil • Libya attends as full member • 22 delegates from 12 Affiliate Countries • Meeting with Coordinator for Africa and AFSEC President • Exchange on NECs (Ghana and Sudan) • Decision to launch an Affiliate Forum • Council day: conference on Contribution of IEC IS on sustainable growth and high tech development (Toshiba, Hewlett-Packard, CA Brazilian system, Philips) • Emerging economies represented in Council Board (election/re-election) • South Africa, Korea, Mexico, Brazil

  15. IEC launches on-line e-TRAINING for members

  16. IEC TC/SC Officers eTRAINING • Designed for  IEC TC/SC Chairmen and Secretaries • Newly appointed TC/SC Officers: familiarization with their main tasks and relevant procedures • Experienced TC/SC Officers: refresh and update their knowledge • Modular: flexibility for structure, content and duration • Regular updates • http://etraining.iec.ch (restricted access)

  17. Contents • Introduction to the IEC • Responsibilities and tasks of TC/SC Officers and CO • Standards development • Forms and templates • Technical drawing and editing • Guidance for meetings • TISS (Techn. Infor. Support and Services) • Communication and sales

  18. THANKS www.iec.ch

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