Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012 ICT Standards Education at ETSI Hermann Brand, Director Innovation, ETSI Joint ITU-GISFI-DS-CTIF Standards Education Workshop (Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012)

Why ICT standards education? More and more complex network effects in ICT and other sectors (due to ICT) Open multi-sector innovation eco-systems More stakeholders in future ICT standardization Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012 Value of a network = (# nodes) 2

3 dimensions of ICT standards education Technology: Technical standards codify state-of-the-art technologies Business: Standardization is a business/market development tool Policy: Standardization supports (European) policy making Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012

Evolution of selected member categories from March 2008 to March 2012 ETSI approach: open up to academia and work with academic members ETSI has ca. 750 members, 62 countries, 5 continents

Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012 Encourage usage of standards and help to get involved in standardization ETSI standards can be downloaded free of charge Technical universities make use of ETSI standards (e.g. mobile communications, smart cards,...) In lectures In seminars ETSI organizes/hosts open workshops/confs Teach how to develop standards (ETSI Seminar twice a year) Ease participation (as a Guest, remote) Subsidize membership fees for universities and public research bodies Convert research into pre/standardization projects (learn standards making) EXAMPLES

Conclusions and Recommendations/Questions Use ICT Standards as source of state-of-the- art knowledge in engineering lessons Involve students and convert them into standards users/makers Standardization is not a science but a practice – like management There is a diversity of standardization cultures (communities, goals, values, history) Free access to standards! Foster learning by doing! Is standardization as an academic discipline mature? Are specific contexts and legitimacies properly understood? Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012

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Messages/themes (1) Everything connected and interconnected – understand network effects The value of a technology depends on a commercial offer (product/service) making use of it (based on a business model) The culture of consensus building standards are not god made, but made by stakeholders in committees Engage and make use of standards organisations Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012

Messages/themes (2) Standardisation is not a science but a practice – like management. Has the basis of standardisation as an academic discipline be developed? Is the canonical standardisation knowledge available to be taught? Non-existence of subject areas or departments to deal with standardisation in the higher education sector in Europe. This also applies to the absence of qualified lecturers. Aalborg, Denmark, 8-9 October 2012