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Rapporteur's Group Question details
Question 3/1
Emerging technologies, including cloud computing: m-services, and OTTs: Challenges and opportunities, economic and policy impact for developing countries | |
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a) Annual progress report on the above study items.
b) A progress report midway through the study cycle.
c) A final report for the Question that includes:
• An analysis of the factors influencing effective access to support emerging technologies, including cloud computing, m-services and OTT offerings.
• A set of guidelines, such as policy or technical approaches, among others, for facilitating infrastructure deployment, which could be delivered, inter alia, through training seminars in accordance with the ITU Telecommunication Development Sector (ITU-D) programme on capacity building.
• A handbook on infrastructure and services supporting cloud computing in developing countries, including consideration of strategies and policies that could be implemented.
• This handbook will be the result of study group collaboration between ITU T Study Groups 3 and 13 and the rapporteur group dealing with this Question under ITU D Study Group 1.
• Draft Recommendation(s), as appropriate and if justified.
Question or issue for studyCloud computinga) Infrastructure needs for supporting and enabling access to cloud services.
b) Strategies, policies and infrastructure investments to foster the emergence of a cloud-computing ecosystem in developing countries, taking into consideration relevant standards recognized or under study in the other two ITU Sectors.
c) Cloud-computing trends.
d) Features of networks that support effective access to cloud-computing services.
e) Building and developing a sufficient group of existing frameworks to support investment in infrastructure for cloud computing, taking into consideration relevant standards recognized or under study in the other two ITU Sectors.
f) Cost models for the adoption of cloud computing.
g) Continued elaboration of case studies of successful cloud-computing platforms used in developed and developing countries.
M-servicesa) Policies, strategies and relevant approaches in the field of m-services.
b) Methods of development and deployment of cross-cutting services such as e-commerce, e-finance and e-governance, including money transfer, m-banking and m-commerce.
c) Strategies for availability, access and use of mobile services and applications.
d) Ways to promote an enabling environment among ICT stakeholders for the development and deployment of m-services.
Over-the-topa) Impacts of the provisioning of OTTs, including impacts on regulatory frameworks, network infrastructure, economic impacts and business models.
b) Assessments of the competition effect on the market.
c) Identification of policy tools to facilitate the availability of competitive OTT to consumers at the local and national levels.
d) Identification of best practices and policies that create incentives for investment in OTTs.
e) Continued study of issues relating to facilitating access to IP networks, thereby enabling access to OTTs.
f) National case studies and experiences regarding legal frameworks and partnerships seeking to facilitate the development and deployment of OTT.
g) National experiences describing the economic and business model among telecom operators and OTT providers. |
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| Useful Information |
- Question 3/1 meeting during the First meeting of ITU-D Study Group 1 (30 April – 4 May 2018)
All Documents for SG1 Questions, Q3/1 Documents, Reports, Administrative Documents, Agenda - Question 3/1 Rapporteur Group meeting (17 – 28 September 2018)
All Documents for SG1 Questions, Q3/1 Documents, Reports, Administrative Documents, Agenda - Question 3/1 meeting during the Second meeting of ITU-D Study Group 1 (18 – 22 March 2019)
All Documents for SG1 Questions, Q3/1 Documents, Reports, Administrative Documents, Agenda - Question 3/1 Rapporteur Group meeting (23 September – 4 October 2019)
All Documents for SG1 Questions, Q3/1 Documents, Reports, Administrative Documents, Agenda - Session on the Economic Impact of OTTs on National Telecommunication/ICT Markets (1 October 2019)
- Question 3/1 meeting during the Third meeting of ITU-D Study Group 1 (17 – 21 February 2020)
All Documents for SG1 Questions, Q3/1 Documents, Reports, Administrative Documents, Agenda - Presentation session of Q3/1 & Q4/1 joint annual deliverable (2019-2020): Economic impact of OTTs on national telecommunication/ICT markets (17 February 2020)
- Webinar series on COVID-19 Cloud for COVID-19 Response web dialogue (27 May 2020)
- Annual deliverables : 2020
- WSIS Forum 2020: A roadmap to a trusted Cloud for Good (9 July 2020)
- Question 3/1 Rapporteur Group meeting (30 September - 1 October 2020)
All Documents for SG1 Questions, Q3/1 Documents, Reports, Administrative Documents, Agenda - Question 3/1 meeting during the Fourth meeting of ITU-D Study Group 1 (22 - 26 March 2021)
All Documents for SG1 Questions, Q3/1 Documents, Report, Administrative Documents, Agenda - Question 3/1 Rapporteur Group meeting (11 - 15 October 2021)
All Documents for SG1 Questions, Q3/1 Documents, Reports, Administrative Documents, Agenda |
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