T.5-1 Memoranda of understanding (MoUs) and collaboration agreements 

IEC, ISO and ITU cooperate on standardization to the extent that 10% of all ITU standards are common or aligned with the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee 1 on Information Technology (ISO/IEC JTC1) [69]]

Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) assists regional and international SDOs in coordinating their contributions in fields of mutual interest. Topics discussed at GSC meetings from 2015 to 2017 include IoT, 5G, critical communications and public safety, security and privacy, SMEs, AI and smart cities. ITU hosts the repository of GSC-documents from past meetings. See GSC website. [70]

ITU and ETSI reaffirmed their MoU in 2016. ETSI and ITU enjoy successful collaboration in areas including ICT energy efficiency and methodologies to assess the environmental impacts of ICTs and standardization for C&I testing. [71] 

ITU and the NGMN Alliance cooperate in support of the development of next-generation mobile broadband technologies.

Financial Inclusion Global Initiative (FIGI) is a three-year programme of collective action led by ITU, the World Bank Group and the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to advance research in digital finance and accelerate digital financial inclusion in developing countries.

ITU and CEN-CENELEC cooperate within a high-level, non-exclusive framework in areas including IoT and smart sustainable cities, trust, privacy by design, cybersecurity, mobility, and ITS communications.

The United for Smart Sustainable Cities (U4SSC) initiative, supported by 16 UN bodies, advocates for public policy to ensure that ICTs and ICT standards play a definitive role in the transition to smart cities [72].  U4SSC has published several reports as part of its commitment and work to shape smarter and more sustainable cities. See U4SSC website.

Collaboration on ITS Communication Standards is a globally recognized forum for the creation of an internationally accepted, globally harmonized set of ITS communication standards.

ITU and the Association for Information Systems (AIS) ‑ a non-profit professional association of individuals and organizations ‑ cooperate on technical challenges to bring greater certainty, confidence and predictability to interactions within the Information Society. [73]

ITU and the Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation (GTARC) – a non-profit supporting organization of the Georgia Tech Research Institute – cooperate in raising awareness of the importance of IoT standardization. See relevant press release. [74]

ITU and MEF cooperate on standards for emerging connectivity services – designed to be agile, assured, and orchestrated – in addition to standardized CE 2.0 (Carrier Ethernet) services. Read the press release here. [75] 

The 2nd edition of the AI for Good Global Summit was organized by ITU in Geneva on 15-17 May 2018, in partnership with XPRIZE Foundation, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and 32 sister United Nations agencies and bodies.

Recognizing that all stakeholders should consider how AI will affect our future, the 2017 summit sparked an inclusive global dialogue on AI. The action-oriented 2018 edition highlighted AI strategies and supporting projects to accelerate progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

The event attracted more than 700 attendees from more than 60 countries (36% women participants). It had 148 speakers from more than 30 countries with 35% women speakers. Read an ITU blog piece here. [76] 

The summit was designed to connected AI innovators with public and private-sector decision-makers. The matchmaking exercise introduced problem owners to solution owners, building collaboration to take promising strategies forward.

Around 35 projects were pitched to the summit around the broad themes of aiming to build trust in AI, advancing global health and food security, meeting urban-development challenges with smart cities and communities, and the potential of AI to map poverty and aid with natural disasters using satellite imagery.

ITU also launched a global Artificial Intelligence repository to identify AI related projects, research initiatives, think-tanks and organizations and map them to the relevant sustainable development goals. The repository is based on the WSIS repository platform and has already collected over 70 AI projects​

T.5-2 ITU-T A.4/A.5/A.6 qualifications​

• ITU-T A.4 - Procedures for communicating with forums and consortia.
  
• ITU-T A.5 - Making reference to documents from other organizations.
  
• ITU-T A.6 - Cooperation and exchange of information with national and regional SDOs.

T.5-3 Jointly organized workshop/events