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Abstracts
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09:30 – 10:00 |
Opening ceremony: Welcome and Opening addresses Master of Ceremonies: Representative of host country
- Opening remarks: Malcolm Johnson, (Director,
Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB))
- Opening Address: Dr. Ekwow Spio Garbrah, CEO, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization
- Welcome address: Honourable Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Minister of Industry, Trade, Tourism & Communications, Fiji
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10:00 – 11:15 |
Session 1: WTSA-08 Outcomes Objectives: This session will present an
overview of ITU and main WTSA-08 results. It will also review the WTSA-08
outcomes in relation to the interest of developing countries with special
reference to the Asia-Pacific region.
Moderator: Arthur Levin (Head, Standardization Policy Division, ITU/TSB)
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Malcolm Johnson, (Director, Telecommunication
Standardization Bureau (TSB)): Overview and implementation of the WTSA-08
Decisions overall results |
Paolo Rosa, (Head of Workshops and Promotion Division,
ITU/TSB): WTSA-08 Resolutions for Developing Countries and Asia-Pacific
Region
This presentation will provide the main results of the WTSA-08 with specific
reference to the contributions submitted by the members of the Asia pacific
region and the degree of involvement and commitment from the region as
result of the WTSA-08 decisions. |
Ronald Box, (Manager, International, Australian
Communications & Media Authority): Regional perspective of WTSA-08 outcomes
This presentation provides a regional perspective of WTSA-08 outcomes. It
examines Asia Pacific input to WTSA-08 and reviews how the region fared. It
looks at the successes to date, considers the “Where to from here” aspect,
and explores ways the WTSA-08 outcomes can be implemented to maximize
regional benefit. It also identifies the linkages with regional preparations
for the 2010 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference. |
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11:15 – 11:30 |
Coffee break |
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11:30 – 12:30 |
Session 2: Hot Topics in Standardization, conformance assessment and
interoperability Issues
Objectives: This session will address the results of the Global Standardization Symposium (Johannesburg, October 2008) where high level officials from the highest standards bodies participated as well as the concerns of countries in Asia-Pacific related to conformance of equipment and services to ITU-T Standards. Resolution 76 (WTSA-08) is a way to respond to this issue and some aspects will be addressed to Council-09. This session will also provide inputs to the Director for his report to ITU Council-09 on this issue.
Moderator: Stuart Davies, (Telecommunication Expert (APT))
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Patrick Masambu, (Chairman, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation):
Results from the Global Standardization Symposium (Johannesburg, October
2008) |
Paolo Rosa, (Head of Workshops and Promotion
Division, ITU/TSB): WTSA-08 Resolution 76 –Conformance and
Interoperability Testing
This presentation reviews the conformity assessment and interoperability
aspects as shown in the WTSA-08 Resolution 76 the work made in ITU to
address the various issues and the results of a 7 months work carried out to
present a feasibility report to the ITU Council 2009. |
Saneh Saiwong, (Acting Director, Telecommunication
Standard Division, Office of the National Telecommunications Commission,
Thailand): Standards and their applicability for developing countries
The presentation would try to address the concerns of developing countries
pertaining to standardization, conformance assessment and interoperability
as reflected in WTSA-08 Res.76. Technical standards, as their prime
objectives, should meet the needs of developing countries for which
essential requirements are the key factor. While focusing on
interoperability, QoS and protocols for emerging services and applications
may still be the main aim, ITU-T should review its domains of expertise and
decide whether that approach is still relevant to those needs and
alternative approach might be considered. (A more focused and
product-specific approach of ISO/IEC is one of such consideration.)
The presentation would also touch upon several other important issues
including ITU mark, testing and certification facilities, and capacity
building. |
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12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 – 15:30 |
Session 3: Hotter Topics Objectives: This session will examine some
of the key standards issues being dealt with in ITU-T under relevant WTSA-08
Resolutions and provide updates on latest developments, with a focus on
issues of interest to Asia-Pacific.
Moderator: Jongbong Park, (Director, Standards
Coordination Team, Telecom Technology Association (TTA))
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Arthur Levin (Head, Standardization Policy
Division, ITU/TSB): ICTs and Climate Change |
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Prof. John Nkoma*, (Director-General, TCRA, Tanzania):
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Joseph Kim, (Director, Engineering Standards PANGTEL
(PNG)): ICT for good governance in the face of Globalization and Climate Change: The Pacific Island view
It should not sound too academic for the Pacific Island (PI) countries that
ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has a role to play in the
pursuit of good governance which is fundamental in facing the impacts of
globalization and climate change today. After all good governance leads to
better delivery of services, effective and efficient resource mobilization,
improvements in quality of life and empowerment of the citizens and
improving skills. There are many other desirables of good governance that
will indeed lead to an empowered population that can sustain their life in
the face of globalization and climate change.
The PI states are part of a globalised world where ICT enables connectivity
and competition from all corners of the world to put more pressure on the
smaller PI economies. It is impossible to turn back the tide of
globalization and efforts to do so can make the PI economies worse off. Good
governance is a prerequisite and a pathway to meeting the challenges and
opportunities of globalization and climate change. Good governance also
means strong leadership that can produce institutional capacities to produce
an educated, skilled and empowered population. ICT definitely has a role to
play for all these desirables.
Leading international aid agency Oxfam reported (Post Courier, Thursday, 6th
August 2009) that these PI states are already hit by the economic crisis,
food crises and climate change will push them further into poverty. For the
PI states, climate change is a reality and is contributing to increasing
food and water shortages, forced migration due to loss of land, deaths from
rise in malaria, frequent rain, storm and flooding. These and many other
calamities are a direct result of climate change so the PI states urgently
need to explore partnerships with international friends to finds ways to
minimize adverse impacts, adapt where possible and engage in resettlement
programs for people who will be displaced by climate change.
The APT/CTO/ITU are just some of the possible forums where PI countries may
voice their issues and these provide avenues where such partnerships can be
explored say from the perspective of the role that ICT can play in good
governance, globalization and climate change as promoted by these
organizations. More specifically this could be in a form of proposals for
amendments of existing respective ITU-T resolutions or even proposals for
new resolutions. PI countries need to cooperate and form a united stand and
engage with international friends for partnerships on these issues. |
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:00 – 17:30 |
Session 4: Trends in NGN and migration strategies Objectives: This
session will discuss key issues in the deployment of NGN, including current
standards work, architecture, migration strategies and relevant
technologies, with focus on convergence.
Moderator: Priyantha Kariyapperuma, Director General of
Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka
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Ms Fuatai Purcell, (Project Coordinator for the
Pacific, ITU-EC Project – Harmonized Policies for the ICT in ACP
Countries): ITU- EC Project on harmonization of ICT policies and BDT
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Siva Ramamoorthy, (Head of Marketing, Tejas
Networks): Standardization - an Opportunity for IP and Innovation
The world of Telecom is in a period of rapid growth. Internet usage is
exploding, wireless usage is exploding.
The Online Population is expected to grow to around 1.7 Billion in another
3-4 years. Many nations in the developing world are leap frogging
technology. For most users in the developing world, the first phone will be
a cell phone.
In such a rapid growth environment, Telecom presents an ideal opportunity
for Innovation. The talk examines how Open standards can help innovation and
explores a few building blocks of Innovation. In many cases such
opportunities may be places for emerging countries to do Bottom of the
Pyramid Innovation and Pull-up Innovation. For example GE's MAC800 ECG
machines originally developed for India/China are now being sold in North
America.
The talk explores a Telecom scenario where Carrier Ethernet - a 30 year old
technology with new set of services definitions can be applied in a NGN
context to carrying the huge growing Backhaul requirements. |
Paolo Rosa, (Head of Workshops and Promotion Division,
ITU/TSB): Implementation of Optical Submarine Systems as a backbone
infrastructure in Asia-Pacific
The Pacific area is populated by thousands low populated small islands that
have to be linked to the mainland. One of the techniques is to lay optical
submarine cables in the ocean. Such cables are the "backbone" infrastructure
that is a part of the overall network needed to implement NGN technologies
in the region.
This presentation gives an overview on the various aspects to be taken into
account when design, install and maintain a submarine system, that due to
its characteristics has to provide very high reliability to ensure low
probability of failures. |
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09:25 – 09:30 |
Opening Remarks
Patrick Masambu, (Chairman, Commonwealth Telecommunications
Organisation) |
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09:30 – 10:30 |
Session 5: Bridging the Standardization Gap
Objectives: The workshop on BSG will identify the standards needs of
developing countries and present research conducted and case studies on
improving the national standards readiness of developing countries.
Moderator: Ronald Box, (Manager, International, Australian
Communications & Media Authority)
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Joseph Kim, (Director, Engineering Standards
PANGTEL (PNG)): Bridging the Standardization Gap - View from Papua New Guinea
To standardize is to cause to conform to a standard and hence ‘bridging the
standardization gap’ in the ICT/Telecommunication sector is an important
agenda throughout the world and there is no exception in Papua New Guinea
(PNG) as its impacts can have far reaching consequences in the ICT sector
itself and/or over the other social and economic sectors in the country.
Regional forums and ITU-T in particular have been implementing programs in
an effort to bridge the Standardization Development Gap (SDG) between the
developed and the developing countries. For a small developing country like
PNG which is an end user of ICT goods, services and applications the
persistence of SDG presents many implications which are discussed in this
presentation. Therefore the importance of closing the SDG must be well
understood beginning with the fact that the MDG (Millennium Development
Goals) can be achieved by utilizing ICT goods and services which means that
their compatibility and interoperability is necessary to provide
connectivity, services and content for the intended purposes.
There are other determinants in the persistence of the SDG in a country like
PNG such as the strength of the ICT policy, the regulatory authority and the
standards enforcement institution. The combination of the quality of these
institutions could see the wide spread use of a larger range of ICT goods,
services and applications within the sector and more importantly in the
other social economic sectors thus providing the motivation to strengthen
standardization activities in the country. In this regard, the standards
issuance process in PNG is discussed. The development of the
ICT/Telecommunication sector in PNG has been somewhat slow due to a number
of reasons including lack of forward looking legislative instruments and non
existence of an associated coherent sector policy. Such a slow development
has a direct bearing on standardization issues because the jurisdiction is
unable to enjoy/experience a wider range of ICT/Telecommunication products
so naturally does not master the motivation to dwell far in the
standardization development arena. This is compounded by the level of play
by the industry, the regulatory bodies and the standardization institutions.
The initiatives of the ITU-T to bridge the SDG such as provision of ITU-T
recommendations free of charge, establishing a fund, offering a range of
remote participation tools, establishing links with academia (Kaleidoscope),
and conducting workshops are fully noted and appreciated. These initiatives
are commendable but to date PNG has not been able to exploit them fully for
a number of reasons including shortage of properly qualified staff, limited
number of TIES accounts, persistence in chronic shortage of bandwidth due to
cost and lack of commitment to bid, invite and host ITU-T standardization
workshops.
Towards this end, this short presentation provides the view from PNG
pertaining to bridging the SDG. Comments and suggestions from the audience
are most welcome on the same. |
Saneh Saiwong, (Acting Director, National Telecommunications Commission, Thailand):
Bridging the standardization gap - The case of Thailand
The presentation would examine the situation of telecommunication
standardization activities, identify the gap, and offer ways and means in
bridging that, from Thailand’s viewpoint. Several initiatives would be
outlined and presented as examples so that they would form part of concrete
advice to other developing countries in enhancing their standard readiness. |
Dr. Van Dung Dinh, (Deputy Director, Research
Institute of Post and Telecommunications, Vietnam): An implementation approach to action plans in BSG
This is to present an implementation approach to action plans on BSG
developed in the WTSA-04 Resolution 44. The approach provides a model for
developing countries to build a Standard Development Organization, a
National ITU Committee, a domestic standards development procedure, and a
way of making contributions to ITU. It also points out open issues on BSG
need to be solved by ITU and developed countries. |
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10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00 – 12:30 |
Session 6: Addressing the Standardization Gap in Asia-Pacific
Objectives: This session will present regional perspectives concerning the approach to standards and the importance to developing countries of BSG.
Moderator: Arthur Levin, (Head, Standardization Policy Division, ITU/TSB)
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Jongbong Park, (Director, Standards Coordination Team,
Telecom Technology Association (TTA)): Experiences and Considerations
for BSG
TTA, Korean ICT standardization organization, has been providing a
consultation program to developing countries in order to contribute bridging
standardization gap. By doing this, TTA has identified some of issues such
as distinction between standard and technical regulation, open process for
industry involving to standards setting, scenarios for setting up SDO, etc.
This presentation aims to share its experience that TTA has been through. |
Stuart Davies, (Telecommunication Expert (APT)): Regional
Approaches
This presentation outlines other global standards bodies and then concentrates
on the work being done on Standardisation in the Asia Pacific Region by APT.
Finally it gives some thoughts on Developing countries involvement in Standardisation activities.
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Dr. Laura DeNardis, (Executive Director, Yale Information
Society Project, Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School): Why Developing
Countries can gain from Standards
This presentation, called "Why Developing Countries can Gain from Standards" will examine
the public policy implications of information and communication technology standards; address
the consequences of lack of standards participation to developing countries; and describe how
the ITU's Bridging the Standardization Gap project is addressing these issues.
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Dr. Laura DeNardis, (Executive Director, Yale Information
Society Project, Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School): Why Developing
Countries can gain from Standards |
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12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 – 15:30 |
Session 7: Measuring and Reducing the Standardization Gap
This session will provide expert, concrete advice to developing countries on how to improve their standards readiness, participate more effectively in standards work at ITU and make the best use of standards.
Moderator: Dr. Byoung Moon Chin, (Vice-President, Telecom Technology Association (TTA))
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Arthur Levin, (Head, Standardization Policy Division,
ITU/TSB): ITU Activities on BSG |
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Dr. Shin-Won Kang, (Professor, Sunchon National University): Measuring
Standardization Capability of developing countries |
Dr. Laura DeNardis, (Executive Director, Yale Information
Society Project, Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School): Measuring and Reducing the Standardization Gap
This presentation, called "Measuring and Reducing the Standardization Gap" will present case studies
on national standardization capability; describe the primary standards gaps confronting developing
countries; and recommend some best practices for national standards capability.
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15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee break |
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16:00 – 17:00 |
Session 8: Panel discussion and Summaries by Session Moderators
Moderator: Malcolm Johnson, (Director, Telecommunication Standardization
Bureau (TSB))
- Arthur Levin, (Head, Standardization Policy Division, ITU/TSB)
- Jongbong Park, (Director, Standards Coordination Team, Telecom Technology
Association (TTA))
- Priyantha Kariyapperuma, Director General of Telecommunications Regulatory
Commission of Sri Lanka
- Ronald Box, (Manager, International, Australian
Communications & Media Authority)
- Dr. Byoung Moon Chin, (Vice-President, Telecom Technology Association (TTA))
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17:00 – 17:30 |
Closing Remarks
- Malcolm Johnson, (Director,
Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB))
- Dr. Ekwow Spio Garbrah, CEO, Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation
- Honourable Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, Minister of Industry, Trade, Tourism & Communications, Fiji
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