The World Standards Cooperation was established in 2001 by ITU, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in order to strengthen and advance the voluntary consensus-based international standards systems of ITU, ISO, and IEC.
Activities include:
Technical coordination mechanism among IEC, ISO and ITU-T/ITU-R (including ISO/IEC JTC1)
Global Initiatives
Initiatives driven by ITU in partnership with other United Nations organizations support interdisciplinary collaboration on new technologies for sustainable development.
Current initiatives:
Concluded initiatives:
An ITU-UNESCO/IOC-WMO Joint Task Force has been created to investigate the potential of using submarine telecommunications cables for ocean and climate monitoring and disaster warning.
The ITU-led Collaboration provides a globally recognized forum for the creation of an internationally accepted, globally harmonized set of intelligent transport system (ITS) communication standards.
Digital financial inclusion activities through the
DFS Security Lab provide a platform for collaboration with DFS regulators from emerging economies on best practices and standards for digital financial services and create awareness on emerging technologies for digital finance.
This cooperation is intended to raise the profile of academic institutions and promote the advancement of ICT innovations through worldwide recognition and adoption of global standards.
The Global Standards Collaboration is an unincorporated voluntary organization dedicated to enhancing global cooperation and collaboration regarding communications standards and the related standards development environment.
ITU-T's external cooperation is guided by Recommendation
ITU-T A.5: making reference to documents from other organizations.
NOTE – While Recommendations
ITU-T A.4 "Procedures for communicating with forums and consortia" and
ITU-T A.6 "Cooperation and exchange of information with national and regional SDOs" are no longe in force, the list of previously qualified organizations is found in the
A.4/A.5/A.6 archive page.
