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Focus Group Bridging the Gap: From Innovations to Standards. Ajay Ranjan Mishra Chairman-Focus Group ITU-T Head of Industry Environment – India & Emerging Markets Nokia Siemens Networks. FG from Innovation to Standards. Set up at TSAG meeting of January 2012
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Focus GroupBridging the Gap: From Innovations to Standards Ajay Ranjan Mishra Chairman-Focus Group ITU-T Head of Industry Environment – India & Emerging Markets Nokia Siemens Networks Presentation / Author / Date
FG from Innovation to Standards Presentation / Author / Date • Set up at TSAG meeting of January 2012 • Web http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/innovation • First meeting 19 March in Geneva • ICT Innovations Workshop on 20-21 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
ICT Innovations and Standards Presentation / Author / Date • 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
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, Nokia Siemens Networks Presentation / Author / Date
Work Plan Presentation / Author / Date • Item 1: In cooperation with ITU-D, document successful cases of ICT innovations by geographical area • Asia • Africa • Latin America • East Europe
Work Plan Presentation / Author / Date 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.
Work Plan Presentation / Author / Date 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;
Working Groups WG: Chair OPEN IIT, Mumbai WG: Chair Ramy Ahmad TR, Egypt WG: Chair Arun Bedi, DELL, Singapore Presentation / Author / Date
Deliverables Presentation / Author / Date • 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”
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) Presentation / Author / Date
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 Presentation / Author / Date
Tunisie Telecom Hosts FG meeting • FG Meeting in Tunisia organized by the Tunisie Telecom. The participation was more than 75 members on day 1 & 50+ members on day 2 • Attended by more than 20-25 nationals from Africa • More than 12 inputs received for the meetings • List of Innovations that could be possible standardized started. • http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/innovation/Pages/default.aspx Presentation / Author / Date
Future Meetings • December 2012: Mexico • February 2013: India • May 2013: US • Final Report to TSAG: June 2013 Presentation / Author / Date
WELCOME – to JOIN & CONTRIBUTE Presentation / Author / Date