- Introduction of Kaleidoscope academic conferences in 2008 to encourage greater involvement of students and researchers in the work of ITU-T. Since then over 70 universities have forged an association with ITU-T.
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Free downloading of ITU-T Recommendations was recommended to Council-07. Sales of copies were running at around 5000 a year, now downloads are over 3 million copies a year - many to developing countries
- Reorganisation of ITU-T's secretariat the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)
to place greater resources on projects such as bridging the standardization
gap
- Introduction of Bridging the Standardization Gap forums, beginning in Kigali October 2007, to highlight main topics in ITU-T and encourage greater participation from developing countries
- Over 100 meetings held with remote participation in 2008
- Five preparatory meetings for WTSA: Brazil for Americas; Ghana for Africa; Vietnam for Asia Pacific; Uzbekistan for CIS countries; and Syria for Arab States.
- Some of the WTSA 1st's
- 1st time chaired by a woman
- Lyndall Shope-Mafole, Director-General, South African Ministry of Communications
- 1st time in Africa
- 1st time preceded by Global Standards Symposium
- 1st time academia invited
- 1st time side events held: accessibility; climate change; and cybersecurity
- 1st time associated exhibition of new technologies
- 1st substantial restructuring of the Sector
- 1st time term limits on chairmanships applied:
- Virtually complete new team of chairmen and vice-chairmen including 22 from developing countries
- Unprecedented media coverage
- Local and international: including 3 TV interviews, 3 radio interviews, and numerous printed articles and web coverage
- Some of the WTSA successes
- Strengthened Role as pre-eminent global ICT standards body.
- Bridging the standardization gap essential to Connect the World.
- Streamlined and efficient structure
- Avoiding duplication and focusing on key objectives
- Excellent team of new chairmen and vice-chairmen from 33 countries
- Key Resolutions on:
- Primetime Emmy award for Recommendation ITU-T H.264 (MPEG-4) received in Hollywood 23 August 2008 on behalf of ITU, ISO and IEC.
- Implementation of paperless policy in ITU-T's secretariat (TSB)
- Increasing number of paperless meetings
- Increased focus on impact of ICTs on climate change and
accessibility to ICTs for
persons with disabilities
- Increased number of workshops
- record number of 30 workshops in 2008.
- Closer collaboration with IETF with high level management meetings and
the first ever joint ITU-T/IETF group
- Closer collaboration with IEEE on workshops and Kaleidoscope
- Adoption of common patent policy and guidelines with ISO
and IEC.
- Improvement of the ITU-T website resulting in significant increase in hits - 30 per cent between April 2007 and April 2009
- In 2007, a 29 per cent increase in approved ITU-T Recommendations over the previous year, in 2008 a further 23
per cent increase making a new record of 236.
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