ITU will develop “mechanisms” that better integrate the needs of...
ITU will develop “mechanisms” that better integrate the needs of the health, education, literacy, democracy, commerce and entertainment sectors into ITU’s international standardization work to spur e-health, e-learning, intelligent transport systems, mobile money and smart grid, the ITU said in…
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a press release citing a call from 14 chief technology officers (http://xrl.us/bn3k58). “We must ask ourselves whether the vast array of forums and consortiums proliferating in the ICT [information and communications technology] sector today is the most efficient way to address a market that continues to grow in sophistication and complexity,” said Hamadoun Toure, ITU secretary-general. The CTOs also said there’s a need for collaboration among standardization communities dealing with mobile, transport and access, the press release said. The CTOs said collaboration will be “crucial” to ensure a coordinated approach to the development of optical transport standards supporting rollout of mobile broadband beyond 4G, it said. The CTOs proposed smartphone security standardization as a new ITU-T study area, as well as the expansion of ITU-T’s work on software-defined networking, it said. CTOs were from Cisco, AT&T, Ericsson, Etisalat, Fujitsu, Huawei, KDDI, NEC, Nokia Siemens Networks, NTT, Orange FT Group, Research in Motion, Telecom Italia, and Telekom South Africa.