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ITU technical work to combat ICT counterfeiting region with respect to ICT counterfeiting and efforts underway
continues to gain momentum with new standards to overcome these challenges. The survey will serve as a
under development, supported by ongoing studies basis to develop anti-counterfeiting best practices, regulatory
into the scale and dynamics of the counterfeiting frameworks and technical specifications tailored to the African
challenge. context.
An “ITU Technical Report on Counterfeit ICT Equipment” In addition, an ongoing joint ITU-OECD case study on the
offers background information on the nature and scale of the trade in counterfeit and pirated ICTs identifies and quantifies
challenges posed by ICT counterfeiting, including a review of the categories of ICT products affected, and charts and
the ICT products vulnerable to counterfeiting and the various analyzes the evolution of counterfeit trade routes in terms
countermeasures employed by ICT manufacturers, industry of origins, key transit points and destinations. The findings
associations and intergovernmental bodies. of the case study will include a set of policy questions to be
considered by policymakers and industry.
ITU’s ongoing technical standardization work to combat
counterfeiting is complemented with an ITU survey in Africa
aimed at collecting information on the challenges faced by the

“ I expect that the publication of the Technical Report on

counterfeit ICT Equipment could support the ITU Member

States, particularly those in developing countries, to develop
policies and regulatory framework to combat counterfeit

devices in their national telecommunications/ICT strategies. ”
Isaac Boateng, National Communications Authority, Ghana, and Rapporteur of Q8/11

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