Isaac Boateng is a Manager at the National Communications Authority (NCA) of Ghana with over 13 years of professional working experience in the ICT industry. He is responsible for technical regulations and is currently the head of ICT Standards at the NCA. Mr Boateng led his team to streamline the type approval certification process in Ghana by designing a web based application process for manufacturers, to apply and be issued type approval certificates electronically, thus reducing the time of introduction of ICT products onto Ghanaian market. He is also leading the planned establishment of a type approval testing laboratory for the NCA.
Mr Boateng led a team to develop and issue the following new licensing regime for the NCA namely; International Wholesale Carriers Service, Mobile Virtual Network Operations (MNVO) and Fixed of a Unified Access Service Licences.
Mr Boateng is also a Vice Chair of ITU_T SG11 and Rapporteur of 8/11 (Guidelines for Implementations of Signalling, Protocols and for Addressing Counterfeit ICT Devices). His leadership has resulted in the recent publication of an ITU technical report on Counterfeit ICT Equipment and draft new Recommendation “Framework for Solutions to Combat Counterfeit ICT Devices”. He is also the Associate Rapporteur of 11/11 dealing with Protocols and Networks Test Specifications; Frameworks and Methodologies). His recent contribution on Conformity and Interoperability (C&I) Testing Vocabularies commonly used in the ICT Industry was approved in SG11.
He is currently the Chairman of ITU-T Conformity Assessment Steering Committee (ITU-T CASC) which is responsible for the following;
- To provide the ITU-T views to the management organs of the established Conformity Assessment Systems and Schemes of the IEC and ILAC;
- To set up criteria, rules and procedures for the appointment of ITU-T technical experts by working with established Conformity Assessment Systems and Schemes of IEC, in collaboration with ILAC aiming for a common testing and conformity assessment;
- To process applications from candidate experts from ITU-T membership and to appoint the ITU-T technical expert(s);
- To recognize TL with a scope of ITU-T Recommendation(s) which is assessed by IEC or by ILAC accreditation bodies and register it in the ITU recognized TL list;
He has been a speaker at several ITU organised meetings. Most current ones are the ITU-T SG11 organised seminar on ‘‘Combating Counterfeit ICT Equipment’’ and the ITU/IEC/ISO organised workshop on ‘‘Conformance Assessment’’.
Mr Boateng holds M.Sc. in Wireless Communication Systems (UK) and B.Sc. in Physics (GHANA).
