Motivation
The importance of future networks, which include capabilities like cloud computing, trust, big data, SDN or Artificial Intelligence for developing countries will continue to grow for the foreseeable future. New technologies are of critical importance to developing countries as they continue to make networks more accessible, more efficient, more cost effective, more adaptive and more versatile.
This question will aim at reducing the standardization gap in the scope of SG13 activities by being the channel through which developing countries can follow, contribute and implement international standards as appropriate to their context.
The activities of this question will mainly focus on producing Technical Papers and Supplements, which study the needs of the eco-system as a whole of developing country telecom networks in terms of applying IMT-2020, cloud computing, big data, trust and other emerging technologies.
This Question will address work items of specific interest to developing countries with the aim of producing corresponding specific Recommendations of specific interest to developing countries.
This Question provides a highly useful forum for developing countries to describe their infrastructure circumstances, their needs, and thus form a basis for work in other SG13 Questions as well as in relevant organizations within and outside ITU toward meeting their needs.
It has been sensed that there is a desire from the least developed countries to be more involved and to help steer the work towards better meeting their needs, but that it is difficult for them to find a suitable home for such inputs.
This work would feed relevant organizations within and outside ITU whose aim would be to meet the identified needs.
This Question could be promoted and exploited as an easier and automatic entry in SG13 work, for developing countries new to SG13.
This work should be conducted in close cooperation with relevant organizations within and outside ITU.
The following major Recommendations, in force at the time of approval of this Question, fall under its responsibility:
Y Suppl. 46 (11/2017) ITU-T Y.3500-series – Requirements and challenges regarding provision and consumption of cloud computing services in developing countries
Study itemsStudy items to be considered include, but are not limited to:
- What scenarios and requirements in terms of services and deployments are needed for applying future networks, NGN, cloud computing, Trust, big data, SDN and so on and other emerging technologies in Developing Countries telecom networks?
- What are the standardization requirements of developing countries, in relation with SG13’s hot topics and what challenges that could be addressed with standards;
- What enhancements to existing Recommendations are required to provide energy savings directly or indirectly in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and services or in other industries?
Tasks
Tasks include, but are not limited to:
Prepare gap analysis on the current status and trends of IMT-2020, future networks, cloud computing, trust in ICT, big data, SDN, AI, ML and any other new technologies, from a view point of developing country telecom networks.
- Develop requirements and use cases in terms of services and deployments for applying IMT-2020, future networks, NGN, cloud computing, Trust, big data, SDN, AI, ML and any other new technologies in Developing Country telecom networks.
- Produce Supplements and Technical Papers on how best developing countries can implement emerging technologies or migrate to emerging technologies.
- Study of the impact of SG13’s hot topics on telecom networks in developing countries and SDG’s achievement.
- Study of the impact of the implementation of ITU recommendations in developing countries.
- Produce and promote work items for study by Question 5/13.
- Produce and promote work items for study by SG13 Questions, relevant to the specific needs of developing countries.
- Develop recommendations of specific interest to the needs of developing countries.
An up-to-date status of work under this Question is contained in the SG13 Work Programme:
https://www.itu.int/ITU-T/workprog/wp_search.aspx?Q=5/13.
Relationships
Recommendations
- Y-series Recommendations
