Review of ITU activities since GSC-10 (08/05) SOURCE: ITU-T TITLE: Review of ITU activities since GSC-10 (08/05) AGENDA ITEM: GSC-11 Opening Plenary Item 4.7 CONTACT: Houlin Zhao, Director of TSB/ITU GSC11_ Open_12 Review of ITU activities since GSC-10 (08/05) GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications Major events in 2005/2006 WSIS II, Tunis, Tunisia, 16-18 November 2005 (Outputs: “Tunis Commitment” and “Tunis Agenda”) Telecom Americas 2005, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, 3-6 October 2005 WSC meeting, Geneva, 10 February 2006 (common patent policy agreed) World Telecommunication Development Conference Doha, Qatar, 7-15 March 2006 Council-06, Geneva, 19-28 April 2006 Celebration of Telecom Day and World Information Society Day, 17 May 2006 RRC-06, Geneva, 15 May-16 June 2006 Celebration of 100 years of the first Radio Conference Celebration of 50 years of CCITT/ITU-T (20 July 2006) Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-06), Antalya, Turkey, 6-24 November 2006 Telecom World, Hong Kong, 4-8 December 2006 GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications “Declaration of Principles”, World Summit on the Information Society, Geneva 2003 Standardization is one of the essential building blocks of the Information Society. There should be particular emphasis on the development and adoption of international standards. The development and use of open, interoperable, non-discriminatory and demand-driven standards that take into account needs of users and consumers is a basic element for the development and greater diffusion of ICTs and more affordable access to them, particularly in developing countries. International standards aim to create an environment where consumers can access services worldwide regardless of underlying technology. GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications “Tunis Commitment”, World Summit on the Information Society, Tunis, 2005 Our conviction is that governments, the private sector, civil society, the scientific and academic community, and users can utilize various technologies and licensing models, including those developed under proprietary schemes and those developed under open-source and free modalities, in accordance with their interests and with the need to have reliable services and implement effective programmes for their people. Taking into account the importance of proprietary software in the markets of the countries, we reiterate the need to encourage and foster collaborative development, interoperative platforms and free and open-source software, in ways that reflect the possibilities of different software models, notably for education, science and digital inclusion programmes. GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

ITU main activities in 2006-2008 PP-06: Antalya, Turkey , 6-24 November 2006 Telecom-06: Hong Kong, 4-8 December 2006 RAG: Geneva, 24-26 January 2007 TDAG: Geneva, 14-16 February 2007 TSAG: Geneva, 19-23 February 2007 and 12-16 November 2007 CPM-07: Geneva, 19 February-2 March 2007 Council-07: Geneva, 4-14 September 2007 RA-07: 8-12 October 2007 WRC-07: 15 October-9 November 2007 Regional Telecoms (Africa, Asia): 2008 WTSA-08: Autumn 2008 GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

ITU-R main activities 05/06 - RRC-04 successful (digital broadcasting); planning software completed and tested. - New schedule of charges for the processing of space notices approved by Council-05, and objective to meet the regulatory deadlines achieved. - Progress in eliminating the backlog in the processing of terrestrial notices. - PSAA (Procedure for Simultaneous Adoption and Approval of Recommendations) well established. - External cooperation enhanced. - ITU-R Operational Plan for 2006 to 2009 approved. - Meeting of ITU-R Study Groups, including WRC-07 preparation. GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

ITU-T main activities (1) - SGs made a lot of progress in technical work - FG NGN handed-off deliverables in mid-November 2005 to its successor, the NGN GSI (NGN Global Standardization Initiative): . 1st NGN GSI event, Geneva, 16-27 January 2006 . 2nd NGN GSI event, Kobe, 19-28 April 2006 . 3rd NGN GSI event, Geneva, 17-28 July 2006 . 4th NGN GSI event, Geneva, 23 October- 3 November 2006 . JCA of NGN GSI - Home Network: . ITU-T Workshop on HN, 13-14 October 2005 . ITU-T JCA of HN . WSC Workshop, 2-3 February 2006, requesting ITU-T JCA of HN open to ISO and IEC GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications

ITU-T main activities (2) - Workshop on RFID, Geneva, 14-15 February 2006 - Workshops in Geneva and in the regions, such as: Kiev (Ukraine), Almaty (Kazakhstan), Las Vegas (USA) jointly with ATIS, Hanoi (Vietnam), Kobe (Japan), etc. - TSAG meeting, November 2005 - IPR Meeting, November 2005 - EDH enhanced; AAP tools upgraded; tool for NGN coordination - FG IPTV created in April 2006, with the 1st meeting in Geneva, July 2006 - Free web access to ITU-T Recommendations to start from 01/07 - Promotion GSC: Standardization Advancing Global Communications