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Chair's Message

Bundhit Eua-arporn
General Chair

ITU initiated its Kaleidoscope series of conferences in 2008 to provide an exchange platform for
researchers and experts on the standardization of information and communication technologies
(ICTs). The ITU academia membership category, established in 2010, gave further impetus to the
Kaleidoscope series. I would like to express my appreciation to ITU for selecting Chulalongkorn
University as this year’s local partner.

It has been a privilege to chair Kaleidoscope 2016: ICTs for a Sustainable World. The conference’s
theme was a very topical one. ICTs are omnipresent. They are applied as enabling technologies in the
business processes of virtually all sectors of industry and society, and it is clear that they will play an
essential role as enabling technologies in achieving social, environmental and economic sustainability.
The Kaleidoscope 2016 Technical Programme Committee, chaired by Kai Jakobs of RWTH Aachen
University in Germany, selected 25 papers from the 83 submissions received from 23 countries. The
committee selected papers on the basis of double-blind reviews with the help of over 100 international
experts, and also took on the challenging task of identifying candidate papers for awards. I offer my
sincere thanks to all reviewers and members of the Technical Programme Committee for their
generous contribution of time and expertise.
A side-event held the day prior to the Kaleidoscope conference, the ITU Secretary-General's
Academia Consultation, offered to academia representatives, as well as interested industry members
and governments a unique opportunity to meet with the ITU’s Secretary-General to discuss ways to
enhance collaboration between ITU and academia, regarding three areas in particular, including
creating: a new ITU Journal; an Advisory Board of Academia to the Secretary-General; and, a
platform/consultation mechanism to strengthen cooperation with the academic world.
Kaleidoscope 2016 featured three distinguished keynote speakers in Thomas Wiegand, Executive
Director, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, and Chair, Image Communication, TU Berlin; Hossein
Moiin, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Nokia Networks, Finland, who
delivered a talk on decoupling economic growth from carbon emission growth; and Simon Tuff,
Principal Technologist, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), United Kingdom, and chair of the
European Broadcasting Union (EBU) group on “Sustainable Technology in Broadcasting”, who
presented BBC experience on environmentally sustainable broadcasting.
In addition to selected papers, Kaleidoscope 2016 hosted two invited papers.

The first invited paper – authored by Nathalie Devillier (Grenoble Ecole de Management, France) –
focused on ageing, well-being and technology, showing a French perspective on the relationship
between quality of life improvement and digital rights management.

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