Terms of Reference

• To disseminate information on the relevant work of Study Group 20 within the Asia and Pacific region.
• To facilitate the participation of member states, sector members and academia of the region in ITU-T Study Group 20 and related meetings, at least when these meetings are held in the concerned region.
• To collaborate with the Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT), which serves as liaison between the region’s administrations, regulators, operators, manufacturers and academia in matters as per the SG20 mandate.
• To encourage the implementation of ITU-T Y-series Recommendations developed by SG20 in the region.  
• To boost the standard developing capabilities of the countries in the region, in collaboration with APT, with a view to facilitate the interoperability of IoT services within smart cities.
• To identify standardization gaps and encourage substantive contributions from the region including on digital services for SC&C, and digital transformation relevant IoT and SC&C aspects and other potential new areas of interest for ITU-T Study Group 20.
• To foster participation of countries in the region to workshops and other ITU-T Study Group 20 related events.
• To strengthen standard-making capabilities within the region in accordance with Resolution 44 on “Bridging the Standardization Gap between developing and developed countries” (Rev.Geneva, 2022).
• To collaborate with Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT) to identify the regional priorities and to advance on issues related to the mandate of ITU-T Study Group 20 including but not limited to: Internet of Things (IoT), smart cities and communities (SC&C), interoperability between IoT applications for different IoT verticals; quality of service (QoS) and end-to-end performance for IoT and its applications including SC&C; big data aspects of IoT and smart cities and communities; e-services and smart services for smart cities and communities; IoT and SC&C data analytics and intelligent control, blockchain-based technologies in the context of IoT and SC&C, Intelligent Transport system, trust, safety, security and identifications etc. related to IoT and SC&C, robotics and Smart manufacturing.
  
• To identify and study forward looking technologies within the mandate of ITU-T Study Group 20 and trends key for the region with a view to share the results with SG20.  
  
• To collaborate with Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT) and other regional groups on IoT and smart city related matters in order to build synergies. ​

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