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Initiatives to involve Academia in the standardization process

Alessia Magliarditi

Promotion Officer

Telecommunication Standardization Bureau International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

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ITU is eager to attract Academia

 Increase academic participation in ITU  Today’s students are tomorrow’s engineers  Capture new work  Universities and R&D institutions are an important pool of innovation  Foster in academia a greater understanding of the importance of standards 13 July 2010 International Telecommunication Union 2

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Academia can already participate in ITU (1)

Internships at ITU Remote internships  contact: [email protected]

 ITU Technology Watch is scouting for future technologies… send us your paper!

 contact: [email protected]

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Academia can already participate in ITU (2)

    Remote tutoring (video/phone/email) Standards meetings: e.g. by special invitation… just ask us ITU-T workshops are open to all ITU membership for universities under discussion  Reduced fee ~2,000 USD  Decision October 2010 13 July 2010 International Telecommunication Union

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What’s in it for academia?

 Networking opportunities  Global exposure  Access to resources  Prestige  Education 13 July 2010 International Telecommunication Union 5

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ITU Kaleidoscope events

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WSC Academic Week 2010

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New series of academic conferences

 Discussion on tech innovation and its socio-economic implications  International Organizing Committee (10-20 experts) 

Call for Papers

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Double-blind paper review process

 Programme Committee (> 100 ICTs experts) comprises many university profs  Each paper reviewed independently by at least three reviewers  Acceptance rate of papers: ~30% International Telecommunication Union 13 July 2010

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Technical co-sponsorship

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IEEE Communications Magazine Issue February 2010 Union

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BEST PAPERS AWARD

A prize fund totaling

$10,000

for the best 3 papers

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Sponsors

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Kaleidoscope 2008

Innovations in NGN

Geneva, Switzerland  

12 – 13 May Practical outcomes

Future Networks ( FG-FN ) inspired by a Conference paper 13 July 2010  Focus Group on

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Kaleidoscope 2009

Innovations for Digital Inclusion

 Mar del Plata,

Argentina

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31 Aug – 1 Sept

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New

 Local University Exhibit

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Kaleidoscope 2010

Beyond the Internet? Innovations for future networks and services

Pune, India 

13 – 15 December

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K-2010 Suggested (non-exclusive) list of topics

 Track 1: Technology and architecture evolution  Track 2: Applications and services  Track 3: Social, economic and policy issues International Telecommunication Union 13 July 2010

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SIDE EVENTS

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Local University Exhibit

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New this year:

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STANDARDS CORNER

Tutorial on ITU-T standardization 

JULES VERNE’S CORNER

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Committed to Connecting the World Kaleidoscope 2010 Submitted papers per Countries United Kingdom 1 The Netherlands 1 Norway 1 Finland 1 Slovenia 2 Canada 2 Russia 2 Ireland 1 Kazakhstan 1 USA 9 Colombia 13 Germany 4 Italy 5 Portugal 1 Spain 1 Senegal 1 Ghana 1 Brazil 4 Benin 1 China 2 Uzbekistan 1 India 49 Kenya 1 Sri Lanka 1 Korea 2 Japan 5 Malaysia 2

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Stay tuned for Kaleidoscope 2011 …

itu-kaleidoscope.org

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Committed to Connecting the World … and stay tuned for latest ITU standardization activities: ITU-T News feed

http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/newslog

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For any further information…

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THANK YOU!

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